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Subset Data - Get species, longitude, and latitude columns

Source: R/data_chomp.R
data_chomp.Rd

The data_chomp() function "chomps" (subsets) a data frame of occurrence records to only contain the following columns: "species", "longitude", and "latitude". After using this function data will be ready for use in Maxent, for example.

Usage

data_chomp(
  df,
  accepted.name = NA,
  longitude = "longitude",
  latitude = "latitude"
)

Arguments

df

Data frame of occurrence records returned from gators_download().

accepted.name

The accepted species name for the records.

longitude

Default = "longitude". The name of the longitude column in the data frame.

latitude

Default = "latitude". The name of the latitude column in the data frame.

Value

Returns data frame with three columns: "species", "longitude", and "latitude". The "species" column is set by the accepted.name input. This data frame is ready for downstream applications such as Maxent.

Details

This function requires the package dplyr.

Examples

chomped_data <- data_chomp(data, accepted.name = "Galax urceolata")