rpdata: Reading Palaeofire Database

The goal of rpdata is to provide access to the Reading Palaeofire Database.

Installation

You can(not) install the released version of rpdata from CRAN with:

install.packages("rpdata")

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("special-uor/rpdata", "dev")

Example

Load tables to working environment

data("site", package = "rpdata")
data("entity", package = "rpdata")
data("date_info", package = "rpdata")
data("sample", package = "rpdata")

Find entities link to sites

`%>%` <- rpdata::`%>%`
ents <- site %>%
  dplyr::slice(1:4) %>%
  rpdata::get_entities()

ents %>%
  knitr::kable()

ID_SITE	ID_ENTITY	entity_name	latitude	longitude	elevation	depositional_context	measurement_method	TYPE	source	core_location	last_updated	ID_UNIT
1	1	Cygnet core	44.66000	-110.610	2530	lake sediment	Sieved	concentration	Global Charcoal Database Version 4	-777777	2020-03-06	11
2	4	Slough Creek Pond core	44.91000	-110.340	1884	lake sediment	Sieved	concentration	Global Charcoal Database Version 4	-777777	2020-03-06	11
3	5	Burnt Knob core	45.70000	-114.980	2250	lake sediment	Sieved	influx	IMPD	central core	2021-05-07	10
4	6	Baker core	45.89178	-114.263	2300	lake sediment	Sieved	influx	Global Charcoal Database Version 4	central core	2021-05-07	10