Import, parse, and save spatial data

Saves a spatial table to the FishSETFolder as a geojson file. A project must exist before running load_spatial(). See load_maindata to create a new project.

Usage

load_spatial(
  spat,
  name = NULL,
  over_write = TRUE,
  project,
  data.type = NULL,
  lon = NULL,
  lat = NULL,
  id = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

spat

File name, including path, of spatial data.

name

Name spatial data should be saved as in FishSET project folder. Cannot be empty or contain spaces.

over_write

Logical, If TRUE, saves spat over previously saved data table in the FishSET project folder.

project

String, name of project.

data.type

Data type argument passed to read_dat. If reading from a shape folder use data.type = "shape".

lon

Variable or list from spat containing longitude data. Required for csv files. Leave as NULL if spat is a shape or json file.

lat

Variable or list from spat containing latitude data. Required for csv files. Leave as NULL if spat is a shape or json file

id

Polygon ID column. Required for csv files. Leave as NULL if spat is a shape or json file.

...

Additional argument passed to read_dat.

Details

Function to import, parse, and saved project folder in `FishSETFolder` directory. To export as shape file, use write_dat specifying `type='shp'`. load_spatial() performs basic quality check before saving spatial tables to the project data folder as a geojson file. To be saved, the spatial must pass the checks in check_spatdat. The spatial table is converted to an sf object, and checked for unique rows and empty columns. The naming convention for spatial tables is "projectNameSpatTable". See table_view to view/load spatial tables into the working environment.

See also

table_view, load_maindata, write_dat

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# upload from filepath
load_spatial(spat = "FILE/PATH/TO/SPAT", name = 'tenMinSqr', 
             over_write = TRUE, project = 'pcod')

# upload from object in working environment
load_spatial(spat = NMFSAreas, name = "NMFS", project = "pcod")

# upload from an existing FishSET spatial table
load_spatial(spat = "pcodNMFSSpatTable", name = "NMFS", project = "pcod2020")
}