vegdata (version 0.3.2)

tv.site: Load site data from Turboveg Database

Description

Loading Turboveg header data and do basic data evaluation. Empty columns are eliminated and warnings about possibly wrong '0' values are performed

Usage

tv.site(db, tv_home, quiet=FALSE, sysPath = FALSE, iconv, common.only = TRUE,...)

Arguments

db

Name of your Turboveg database. Directory name containing tvabund.dbf, tvhabita.dbf and tvwin.set.

tv_home

Turbowin installation path. Optional, if Turbowin is either on "C:/turbowin" or "C:/Programme/Turbowin".

quiet

Suppress messages

sysPath

Load system files instead of Turboveg files.

iconv

If you get an error about unrecognized symbols, you may want to convert characters from one encoding to another. Please provide a character vector of length two with the names of source and target encoding, see iconv

common.only

Import only header data which occur in all databases with the same name.

...

Additional options like dec for type.convert

Value

• data.frame of site variables.

Details

Please specify pathnames below but not above Turbowin/Data. Can be a single database or a character vector of multiple databases. In the latter case

You can use the final output line to make a summary statistic for attributes with potentially misleading '0' values. Just delete the " at beginning and end.