Pivot long format austrait data into a wide format — trait_pivot

trait_pivot_wider "widens" long format data ("tidy data")

AusTraits data is organised in a long format where observations are on different rows and the type of observation is denoted by various identifying columns (e.g trait_name, dataset_id, observation_id etc.) This function converts the data into wide format so that each trait in it's own column.

trait_pivot_wider(traits)

Arguments

traits: The traits table from austraits list object

Value

list of five tibbles in wide format

Details

For AusTraits <=v3.0.2, some studies have multiple rows of data for each observation_id, so trait_pivot_wider will return four lists (value, unit, value_type, date and replicates) with the identifying columns and trait data arranged in columns.
For AusTraits >3.0.2, trait_pivot_wider will return a single widen tibble, note that some meta-data columns (unit, replicates, measurement_remarks, basis_of_record, basis_of_value) will be excluded to produce a useful wide tibble.

Author

Daniel Falster - daniel.falster@unsw.edu.au

Examples

if (FALSE) {
data <- austraits$traits %>% filter(dataset_id == "Falster_2003")
data #long format 
traits_wide <- trait_pivot_wider(data) 
traits_wide #wide format
}