This package assists in handling functional trait data and transferring them into the Trait Data Standard (Schneider et al. in preparation).
There are two major use cases for the package:
preparation of own trait datasets for upload into public data bases, and
harmonizing trait datasets from different sources by moulding them into a unified format.
The toolset of the package includes
transforming species-trait-matrix or observation table data into a unified long-table format
mapping column names into terms provided in a standard trait vocabulary
matching of species names into GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (taxonomic ontology server)
matching of trait names into a user-provided traitlist, i.e. a thesaurus of traits
unifying trait values into target unit format and legit factor levels
saving trait dataset into a desired format using templates (e.g. for BExIS)
A documentation is available online at http://ecologicaltraitdata.github.io/traitdataform/ or offline in the package vignette 'traitdataform'.