Generate standard scoring rules for soil properties

Automatically assigns appropriate scoring rules to soil properties based on pattern matching of property names. This function provides sensible defaults for common soil properties, reducing the need to manually specify scoring rules for each property.

Usage

standard_scoring_rules(properties)

Arguments

properties

Character vector of property names, or a single string naming a pre-defined property set from soil_property_sets. If a property set name is provided (e.g., "basic", "standard"), the corresponding properties from soil_property_sets will be used.

Value

A named list of scoring_rule objects, one for each property. The names of the list correspond to the property names.

Details

The function applies the following pattern matching rules (case-insensitive):

• Properties containing "ph": optimum_range(7, 1)

• Properties containing "ec" or "electrical": lower_better()

• Properties containing "bd" or "bulk": lower_better()

• Properties containing "om", "soc", or "organic": higher_better()

• Properties containing "n", "nitrogen", "p", "phosph", "k", or "potass": higher_better()

• Properties containing "cec", "ca", or "mg": higher_better()

• All other properties: higher_better() (default)

See also

soil_property_sets, higher_better, lower_better, optimum_range

Examples

# Generate rules for basic property set
rules <- standard_scoring_rules("basic")
names(rules)
#> [1] "pH" "OM" "P"  "K" 

# Generate rules for custom properties
custom_props <- c("pH", "BD", "OM", "Sand")
rules <- standard_scoring_rules(custom_props)

# View a specific rule
rules$pH
#> Scoring Rule: optimum_range 
#>   Type: Optimum range
#>   Optimal value: 7 
#>   Tolerance: 1 
#>   Penalty: linear 

# Use with standard property sets
rules <- standard_scoring_rules(soil_property_sets$standard)