Add a taxon by site table

Adds the aggregate organism observations of a taxon by site table to an existing VegX object.

addTaxonBySiteData(
  target,
  x,
  abundanceMethod,
  obsDates = Sys.Date(),
  isTaxon = TRUE,
  absence.values = c(NA, 0),
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

target

The object of class VegX to be modified.

x

A taxon by site (plot) table (with plots in rows and taxa in columns) and with plant abundance values.

abundanceMethod

A measurement method for aggregate plant abundance (an object of class VegXMethodDefinition).

obsDates

A Date or a vector of Date objects with plot observation dates.

isTaxon

A boolean flag (or vector) to indicate which organism names are taxa.

absence.values

A vector of values to be interpreted as missing plant information.

verbose

A flag to indicate console output of the data integration process.

Value

A modified object of class VegX

See also

Other add functions: addAggregateOrganismObservations(), addCommunityObservations(), addIndividualOrganismObservations(), addPlotGeometries(), addPlotLocations(), addPlotObservations(), addSiteCharacteristics(), addSiteObservations(), addStratumObservations(), addSurfaceCoverObservations()