vegdata (version 0.6.9)

tv.write: Write species-plot observations and site information to Turboveg database.

Description

Write species-plot observations and site information to Turboveg database.

Usage

tv.write(x, site, name, cover = c("code", "perc"), overwrite = FALSE, 
iconv="WINDOWS-1252", db, tvadmin = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

Either observations data.frame with RELEVE_NR, TaxonUsageID and COVER_CODE columns or vegetation matrix of class "veg".

site

Header data for plots.

name

Name of the database.

cover

Use of covercodes or (mean) cover percentages, see Details.

overwrite

Logical. Should an existing database be overwritten.

iconv

specify locale if necessary

db

name of original database

tvadmin

Build new TvAdmin.dbf? If FALSE the file from the original database will be copied to the new directory.

...

Additional arguments.

Value

• A dataframe of species occurences is written in dbase format into the Data directory of the specified Turboveg installation. Accordingly the header data information (tvhabita.dbf) is written to this directory and an empty file remarks.dbf is copied from the sample dataset.

Details

By default covercode are written to Turboveg. This is only meaningful, if correct coverscales are stored in the site dataframe. In case of e.g. VegetWeb data it is better to choose percentage cover (and Cover code 00) for Turboveg).

See Also

tv.veg