BeeBDC (version 1.2.0)

flagLicense: Flag license protected records

Description

This function will search for strings that indicate a record is restricted in its use and will flag the restricted records.

Usage

flagLicense(data = NULL, strings_to_restrict = "all", excludeDataSource = NULL)

Value

Returns the data with a new column, .unLicensed, where FALSE = records that are protected by a license.

Arguments

data

A data frame or tibble. Occurrence records as input.

strings_to_restrict

A character vector. Should contain the strings used to detect protected records. Default = c("All Rights Reserved", "All rights reserved", "All rights reserved.", "ND", "Not for public")

excludeDataSource

Optional. A character vector. A vector of the data sources (dataSource) that will not be flagged as protected, even if they are. This is useful if you have a private dataset that should be listed as "All rights reserved" which you want to be ignored by this flag.

Examples

  # Read in the example data
data("beesRaw")
  # Run the function
beesRaw_out <- flagLicense(data = beesRaw,
                        strings_to_restrict = "all",
                        # DON'T flag if in the following data# source(s)
                        excludeDataSource = NULL)