Flags records with GBIF issues — GBIFissues • BeeBDC

This function will flag records which are subject to a user-specified vector of GBIF issues.

GBIFissues(data = NULL, issueColumn = "issue", GBIFflags = NULL)

Arguments

data

A data frame or tibble. Occurrence records as input.

issueColumn

Character. The column in which to look for GBIF issues. Default = "issue".

GBIFflags

Character vector. The GBIF issues to flag. Users may choose their own vector of issues to flag or use a pre-set vector or vectors, including c("allDates", "allMetadata", "allObservations", "allSpatial", "allTaxo", or "all").

Default = c("COORDINATE_INVALID", "PRESUMED_NEGATED_LONGITUDE", "PRESUMED_NEGATED_LATITUDE", "COUNTRY_COORDINATE_MISMATCH", "ZERO_COORDINATE")

Value

Returns the data with a new column, ".GBIFflags", where FALSE = records with any of the provided GBIFflags.

Examples

# Import the example data
data(beesRaw)
# Run the function
beesRaw_Out <- GBIFissues(data = beesRaw, 
   issueColumn = "issue", 
   GBIFflags = c("COORDINATE_INVALID", "ZERO_COORDINATE")) 
#>  - jbd_GBIFissues:
#> Flagged 0 
#>   The .GBIFflags column was added to the database.