MazamaLocationUtils (version 0.2.0)

table_updateColumn: Update a column of metadata in a table

Description

For matching locationID records the assaociated locatioData is used to replace any existing value in columnName.

Usage

table_updateColumn(
  locationTbl = NULL,
  columnName = NULL,
  locationID = NULL,
  locationData = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

locationTbl

Tibble of known locations.

columnName

Name to use for the new column.

locationID

Vector of locationID strings.

locationData

Vector of data to used at matching records.

verbose

Logical controlling the generation of progress messages.

Value

Updated tibble of known locations.

See Also

table_addColumn

table_removeColumn

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(MazamaLocationUtils)

locationTbl <- get(data("wa_monitors_500"))
wa <- get(data("wa_airfire_meta"))

# We will merge some metadata from wa into locationTbl

# Record indices for wa
wa_indices <- seq(5,65,5)
wa_sub <- wa[wa_indices,]

locationID <- 
  table_getLocationID(
    locationTbl, 
    wa_sub$longitude, 
    wa_sub$latitude, 
    distanceThreshold = 500
  )
  
locationData <- wa_sub$siteName

locationTbl <- 
  table_updateColumn(locationTbl, "siteName", locationID, locationData)

# Look at the data we attempted to merge
wa$siteName[wa_indices]

# And two columns from the updated locationTbl
locationTbl_indices <- table_getRecordIndex(locationTbl, locationID)
locationTbl[locationTbl_indices, c("city","siteName")]

# }