Run pointblank validation on a Sites table

Applies pointblank validation rules to check data quality and schema compliance for an eData Sites table. Checks that site codes and names are non-null and unique, geographic feature and country fields are within their controlled vocabularies, coordinates are within valid ranges, and required metadata fields are present.

Usage

pb_validate_sites(
  data,
  actions = action_levels(),
  agent = TRUE,
  northern_hemisphere = FALSE
)

Arguments

data

Data frame containing Sites table data to validate

actions

Action levels for pointblank agent (only used when agent = TRUE)

agent

Logical. If TRUE (default), returns a pointblank agent object. If FALSE, returns the validated data with validation failures removed.

northern_hemisphere

Logical. If TRUE, constrains latitude validation to northern hemisphere (0-90). Default is FALSE (allows -90 to 90).

Value

If agent = TRUE, a pointblank agent object containing validation results. If agent = FALSE, the input data with validation failures removed.

Details

Validation thresholds are configured using pointblank::action_levels().

See also

pb_validate_edata_table() for the underlying validation framework, pb_validate_all_edata_tables() to validate all tables at once, example_sites_tibble() for an example Sites table.

Other validation: pb_validate_CREED_data_relevance(), pb_validate_CREED_data_reliability(), pb_validate_CREED_scores(), pb_validate_all_edata_tables(), pb_validate_biota(), pb_validate_campaign(), pb_validate_edata_table(), pb_validate_measurements(), pb_validate_methods(), pb_validate_parameters(), pb_validate_reference(), pb_validate_samples()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
pb_validate_sites(example_sites_tibble())

# Constrain latitude to the northern hemisphere
pb_validate_sites(example_sites_tibble(), northern_hemisphere = TRUE)
} # }