List of predefined quantitative methods

This data frame contains the definition of predefined quantitative methods available for Veg-X. These are used by calling function predefinedMeasurementMethod or directly by their name. When a string refers to a subject, the default method for that subject is used.

Details

• subject The description of an attribute class for comparative purposes.

• name The name of the measurement method (normally includes units)

• description Short description of the measurement method (subject and units)

• unit Measurement units

• lowerLimit Lower limit of the quantitative scale, if defined

• upperLimit Upper limit of the quantitative scale, if defined

See also

predefinedMeasurementMethod, defineQuantitativeScaleMethod

Author

Veg-X team.

Examples

# To explore available methods
data("quantitative_methods")

#To use one of them within Veg-X
predefinedMeasurementMethod("Plant cover/%")
#> An object of class "VegXMethodDefinition"
#> Slot "name":
#> [1] "Plant cover/%"
#> 
#> Slot "description":
#> [1] "Plant cover as percentage of ground covered by the projection."
#> 
#> Slot "citationString":
#> [1] ""
#> 
#> Slot "DOI":
#> [1] ""
#> 
#> Slot "subject":
#> [1] "plant cover"
#> 
#> Slot "attributeType":
#> [1] "quantitative"
#> 
#> Slot "attributes":
#> $`1`
#> $`1`$type
#> [1] "quantitative"
#> 
#> $`1`$unit
#> [1] "%"
#> 
#> $`1`$lowerLimit
#> [1] 0
#> 
#> $`1`$upperLimit
#> [1] 100
#> 
#> 
#>