bdffpRain

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Versão em português

This repository houses the bdffpRain package and the raw data and wrangling code used to produce the bdffp_rain (English) and pdbff_chuva (Portuguese) datasets.

The R package

The bdffpRain R package contains cleaned daily precipitation data from 8 rain gauges at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project between 1987 and 2010.
To install the package run:

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("BrunaLab/bdffpRain")

The data is in bdffp_rain, which looks like this:

library(bdffpRain)
data("bdffp_rain")
head(bdffp_rain)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 10
#>   site    lat   lon date         doy time  observer precip notes flag 
#>   <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <date>     <dbl> <chr> <chr>     <dbl> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 km37  -2.43 -59.8 2004-10-04   278 14:20 Rogerio    14   <NA>  <NA> 
#> 2 km37  -2.43 -59.8 2004-10-05   279 <NA>  <NA>       NA   <NA>  <NA> 
#> 3 km37  -2.43 -59.8 2004-10-06   280 07:30 Rogerio     2.6 <NA>  U    
#> 4 km37  -2.43 -59.8 2004-10-07   281 <NA>  <NA>       NA   <NA>  <NA> 
#> 5 km37  -2.43 -59.8 2004-10-08   282 12:30 Apostolo   36.8 <NA>  U    
#> 6 km37  -2.43 -59.8 2004-10-09   283 07:30 Rogerio    14.8 <NA>  <NA>

Check the help file for detailed metadata with ?bdffp_rain.

Raw data and wrangling code

If you are interested in the raw data or the code used to clean and wrangle those data, you can fork this repository, or download it with the green “Code” button on this page. You’ll find the raw data in a series of .XLS files in the "data_raw" directory and annotated wrangling code in the "wrangling" directory.

Data usage

If you wish to use this data for a publication, please cite:

The vignette for the package shows an example of how to use imputation to “fill in” missing observations and produce a complete dataset that can be used to produce figures and summary statistics for monthly precipitation at BDFFP.

Additionally, there is old, probably broken code in the "notes" directory that may be useful.

Contributing

If you find mistakes or issues or would like to suggest improvements, please file an issue.