fe_tally_list: User Friendly Construction of an fe_tally_list Object from a List of Data Frames

Description

fe_tally_list() provides a user-friendly interface for the constructor new_fe_tally_list. While the constructor does not prevent users from creating malformed fe_tally_list objects, fe_tally_list does everything to achieve a well-defined object mostly based on an initial list of data.frames that might be, e.g. drawn out of a user's own data base.

Usage

fe_tally_list(
  x,
  stand_id = "my_tally_list",
  tree_count_name = "tree_count",
  class_def_name = "class_definition",
  area_ha_name = "area_ha",
  size_class_col,
  tree_nr_col,
  species_id_col,
  count_col,
  class_type_col,
  class_min_col,
  class_max_col
)

Value

If the user input allows to construct a well-defined fe_tally_list object, this object will be returned. If not, the function will terminate with an error.

Arguments

x: named list of two or three data frames to be coerced into the goal object. One data frame must contain the tree counts data
stand_id: arbitrary id of the stand (character, default: "my_tally_list")
tree_count_name: name of the data frame in x that contains the tree data counting (default: "tree_count")
class_def_name: name of the column in the trees data frame which provides the definition of the counting classes (default: "class_definition")
area_ha_name: name of the column in the trees data frame which provides each tree's representation number per ha.
size_class_col: description
tree_nr_col: description
species_id_col: description
count_col: description
class_type_col: description
class_min_col: description
class_max_col: description

Details

The input object x to fe_tally_list must be a list that comprises two data frame(s):

a data frame containing the tree counts per class. This data frame must contain a a minimum set of columns (Nr, size_class, N, species.
a data frame that contains information about the class definition,