getRfClassification {birdscanR}

Get a BirdScan 'rfClassification' table

Description

gets the 'rfClasses' table from a 'Birdscan MR1' 'SQL' database

Usage

getRfClassification(dbConnection, dbDriverChar)

Arguments

dbConnection

a valid database connection

dbDriverChar

dbDriverChar 'SQL Server' The name of the driver. Should be either 'SQL Server' or 'PostgreSQL'. If 'PostgreSQL', it connects to cloud.birdradar.com

Value

A list containing three variables: (1) rfclassificationTable: The 'rfClassification' database table; (2) classProbabilitiesAndMtrFactors: A dataframe containing the classification probabilities for all classes for each object; and (3) availableClasses: the classes used for the classification of the objects.

Author(s)

Fabian Hertner, [e-mail]; Birgen Haest, [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
# Set server and database settings
# ===========================================================================
  dbServer       = "MACHINE\\SERVERNAME"     # Set the name of your SQL server
  dbName         = "db_Name"                   # Set the name of your database
  dbDriverChar   = "SQL Server"                # Set either "SQL Server" or "PostgreSQL"

# Open the connection with the database
# ===========================================================================
  dsn = paste0("driver=", dbDriverChar, ";server=", dbServer,
               ";database=", dbName,
               ";uid=", rstudioapi::askForPassword("Database user"),
               ";pwd=", rstudioapi::askForPassword("Database password"))
  dbConnection = RODBC::odbcDriverConnect(dsn)

rfClassification = getRfClassification(dbConnection, dbDriverChar)

## End(Not run)