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Standardize Site Coordinate Data

Source: R/alternative_sites.R
ss_alt_standardize_sites.Rd

Normalizes a data frame of site coordinates (typically loaded from CSV) to the site_id, x, y, type column layout used throughout the ss_alt_* functions.

Usage

ss_alt_standardize_sites(
  sites_data,
  x_col = "x",
  y_col = "y",
  id_col = NULL,
  site_type = "inaccessible"
)

Arguments

sites_data

Data frame with at least x/y coordinate columns.

x_col

Character, name of the x coordinate column. Default "x".

y_col

Character, name of the y coordinate column. Default "y".

id_col

Optional character, name of an existing site ID column. If NULL or not found, IDs are generated as "<site_type>_<n>".

site_type

Character, value for the type column and the ID prefix when id_col is not supplied. Default "inaccessible".

Value

A data frame with site_id, x, y, type as the first four columns, followed by any remaining columns from sites_data.

See also

ss_alt_sites()

Examples

raw <- data.frame(lon = c(629500, 630200), lat = c(9879500, 9880100))
ss_alt_standardize_sites(raw, x_col = "lon", y_col = "lat")
#>          site_id      x       y         type
#> 1 inaccessible_1 629500 9879500 inaccessible
#> 2 inaccessible_2 630200 9880100 inaccessible