bdsummary {bdvis}

Provides summary of biodiversity data

Description

Calculates some general indicators of the volume, spatial, temporal and taxonomic aspects of the provided data set.

Usage

bdsummary(indf)

Arguments

indf

input data frame containing biodiversity data set

Details

The function returns information on the volume of the data set (number of records), temporal coverage (minimum and maximum dates), taxonomic coverage (brief breakdown of the records by taxonomic levels) and spatial coverage (coordinates of the edges of the bounding box containing all records and division of covered area in degree cells) of the records.

To update spatial grid data to dataset, please use format_bdvis or getcellid function before using bdsummary.

Value

No return value, just displays the summary in console

See Also

Other Data preparation functions: format_bdvis(), getcellid(), gettaxo()

Examples

## Not run: 
 if (requireNamespace("rinat", quietly=TRUE)) {
  inat <- get_inat_obs_project("reptileindia") 
  inat <- format_bdvis(inat, source="rinat")
  bdsummary(inat)
 }

## End(Not run)