Spatialize occurrence records — spatialize • RuHere

Convert a data.frame (or data.table) of occurrence records into a SpatVector object.

Usage

spatialize(
  occ,
  long = "decimalLongitude",
  lat = "decimalLatitude",
  crs = "epsg:4326",
  force_numeric = TRUE
)

Arguments

occ: (data.frame or data.table) a data frame containing the occurrence records to be flagged. Must contain columns for longitude, and latitude.
long: (character) the name of the column in occ that contains the longitude values. Default is "decimalLongitude".
lat: (character) the name of the column in occ that contains the latitude values. Default is "decimalLatitude".
crs: (character) the coordinate reference system (see ?terra::crs). Default is "epsg:4326".
force_numeric: (logical) whether to coerce the longitude and latitude columns to numeric if they are not already. Default is TRUE.

Value

A SpatVector object containing the spatialized occurrence records.

Examples

# Load example data
data("occurrences", package = "RuHere")
# Spatialize the occurrence records
pts <- spatialize(occurrences)
# Plot the resulting SpatVector
terra::plot(pts)