RuHere (version 1.0.1)

spatialize: Spatialize occurrence records

Description

Convert a data.frame (or data.table) of occurrence records into a SpatVector object.

Usage

spatialize(
  occ,
  long = "decimalLongitude",
  lat = "decimalLatitude",
  crs = "epsg:4326",
  force_numeric = TRUE
)

Value

A SpatVector object containing the spatialized occurrence records.

Arguments

occ

(data.frame or data.table) a data frame containing the occurrence records to be flagged. Must contain columns for longitude, and latitude.

long

(character) the name of the column in occ that contains the longitude values. Default is "decimalLongitude".

lat

(character) the name of the column in occ that contains the latitude values. Default is "decimalLatitude".

crs

(character) the coordinate reference system (see ?terra::crs). Default is "epsg:4326".

force_numeric

(logical) whether to coerce the longitude and latitude columns to numeric if they are not already. Default is TRUE.

Examples

# Load example data
data("occurrences", package = "RuHere")
# Spatialize the occurrence records
pts <- spatialize(occurrences)
# Plot the resulting SpatVector
terra::plot(pts)