Package index • austraits

Accessing and exploring the database

load_austraits(): Load AusTraits database into R console

get_compiled_by_traits.build(): Retrieve compiled by information from metadata table

get_traits_table(): Retrieve traits table if user passes traits.build object.

get_version_latest(): Retrieve the latest version of AusTraits

get_versions(): Print out AusTraits versions

summarise_database(): Summarise counts for a particular variable of interest

lookup_context_property(): Look up context properties

lookup_location_property(): Look up location properties

lookup_trait(): Look up a particular trait term

Filter from the database

extract_data(): Extract data from traits.build database

extract_dataset(): Extract all data for a particular dataset

extract_taxa(): Extract all data for specific taxa

extract_trait(): Extract all data for specific traits

Join data to traits table

join_context_properties(): Joining context properties to traits table

join_contributors(): Joining data contributor metadata to traits table

join_location_coordinates(): Joining location coordinates to traits table

join_location_properties(): Joining location properties to traits table

join_methods(): Joining methodological information to traits table

join_taxa(): Joining taxonomy to traits table

join_taxonomic_updates(): Joining taxonomic updates information to traits table

Reshape traits table

trait_pivot_longer() deprecated: Pivot wide format traits table into long format

trait_pivot_wider(): Pivot long format traits table into wide format

join_context_properties(): Joining context properties to traits table

join_contributors(): Joining data contributor metadata to traits table

join_location_coordinates(): Joining location coordinates to traits table

join_location_properties(): Joining location properties to traits table

join_methods(): Joining methodological information to traits table

join_taxa(): Joining taxonomy to traits table

join_taxonomic_updates(): Joining taxonomic updates information to traits table

bind_trait_values(): Bind trait values

separate_trait_values(): Separate bounded trait values

Reshape database(s)

as_wide_table(): Create a single wide table from a traits.build data object

flatten_database(): Create combined traits.build table

bind_databases(): Bind multiple traits.build data objects into a single data object

Quick data visualisations

Plot site or variance distributions

plot_locations(): Produce location maps of trait values

plot_site_locations() deprecated: Produce location maps of trait values

plot_trait_distribution_beeswarm(): Beeswarm Trait distribution

Helpful functions

convert_df_to_list(): Convert dataframe to list

convert_list_to_df1(): Convert list with single entries to dataframe

convert_list_to_df2(): Convert list of lists to dataframe

print(<traits.build>): Generic for outputting a nice summary for austraits objects