get_soilseries_from_NASIS {soilDB}

Get records from the Series Classification (SC) database

Description

These functions return records from the Series Classification (SC) database, either from the local NASIS database (all series) or via web report (named series only).

⁠get_competing_soilseries_from_NASIS():⁠ Get Soil Series from NASIS Matching Taxonomic Class Name

Usage

get_soilseries_from_NASIS(
  stringsAsFactors = NULL,
  dsn = NULL,
  delimiter = " over ",
  SS = FALSE
)

get_soilseries_from_NASISWebReport(soils, stringsAsFactors = NULL)

get_competing_soilseries_from_NASIS(
  x,
  what = "taxclname",
  dsn = NULL,
  SS = FALSE
)

Arguments

stringsAsFactors

deprecated

dsn

Optional: path to local SQLite database containing NASIS table structure; default: NULL

delimiter

character. Used to collapse taxminalogy records where multiple values are used to describe strongly contrasting control sections. Default " over " creates combination mineralogy classes as they would be used in the family name.

SS

logical. Fetch data from the currently loaded selected set in NASIS or from the entire local database (default: FALSE; this is to allow for queries against the full Series Classification database as default)

soils

A vector of soil series names

x

Taxonomic Class Name (or other field specified by what) to match, use ⁠%⁠ for wildcard

what

Column name to match x against, default: 'taxclname'

Value

A data.frame

Author(s)

Stephen Roecker