bdchecks User Guide
Authors: Tomer Gueta and Povilas Gibas
built on 2018-10-16
Introduction
bdchecks supplies a Shiny app and a set of functions to perform and manage various data checks for biodiversity data. bdchecks is part of the bdverse– a collection of tools, that form a general framework for facilitating biodiversity science in R.
bdchecks in the bdverse
What are biodiversity data checks?
Data checks can include format checks, completeness checks, reasonableness checks, limit checks, etc. These processes usually result in flagging, documenting, and subsequent correcting or eliminating of suspect records. The checks must be specifically tailored around the structure of the data at hand, in our case, the Darwin Core standard. Ideally, a data check needs to hold its functionality and relevant metadata.
What bdchecks can do for you?
bdchecks offers various features for various R users:
- Using the Shiny app inexperienced R users can easily perform all data check and can easily filter the data accordingly. See The shiny app section.
- Experienced R users can perform all data checks by utilizing few R functions form the command line or within an R script. See Command line operations section.
- Advanced R users can even edit, add and manage their own collection of data checks, quite easily so. See Data checks YAML file section.
