Fixes SLid in SL table (facilitating SS-SL joins).

Fixes SLid in SL table (facilitating SS-SL joins).

Usage

fixSLids(RDBESDataObject, verbose = FALSE, validate = TRUE, strict = TRUE)

Arguments

RDBESDataObject

A valid RDBESDataObject

verbose

(Optional) Set to TRUE if you want informative text printed out, or FALSE if you don't. The default is FALSE.

validate

(Optional) Should the function validate its input data? The default is TRUE.

strict

(Optional) If the function validates its input data - should the validation be strict? The default is TRUE.

Value

an RDBESDataObject with SL ids reworked

Details

RDBES SL can be seen as a join of two tables - one that identifies the species list in terms of SLcou * SLinst * SLspeclistName * SLyear * SLcatchFrac and one that specifies the taxa (SLcommTaxon * SLsppCode) in the list. In SS, SLid remits to the 1st taxa in a species list and not - as it would be expected - to the species list itself. This function fixes this by creating a new SLtaxaId variable in SL and assigning all taxa in a species to a single SSid.

Examples

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