Data Dictionary of the ForestGEO database.

Source: R/data_dictionary.R

This dataset is based on the Tree Database Data Dictionary available at http://ctfs.si.edu/Public/DataDict/data_dict.php.

data_dictionary

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 242 rows and 3 columns.

Source

http://ctfs.si.edu/Public/DataDict/data_dict.php.

See also

Other metadata: unique_id

Examples

head(data_dictionary)
#> # A tibble: 6 x 3
#>   table  column        description                                              
#>   <chr>  <chr>         <chr>                                                    
#> 1 Census CensusID      Primary key, an integer  automatically generated to uniq~
#> 2 Census PlotID        Foreign Key to Site table.                               
#> 3 Census PlotCensusNu~ "Integer census number for an individual plot, 1=first c~
#> 4 Census StartDate     Date on which the first measurement of the census was ta~
#> 5 Census EndDate       Date on which the last measurement of the census was tak~
#> 6 Census Description   Notes pertinent to the census or general description of ~

# Column names vary in subtle ways (e.g. SubSpeciesID vs. SubspeciesID)
pattern <- "^subspeciesid$"
matching <- grepl(pattern, data_dictionary$column, ignore.case = TRUE)
data_dictionary[matching, ]
#> # A tibble: 5 x 3
#>   table         column    description                                           
#>   <chr>         <chr>     <chr>                                                 
#> 1 SpeciesInven~ SubSpeci~ Foreign Key to  SubSpecies table.                     
#> 2 Specimen      SubSpeci~ Foreign Key to SubSpecies table.                      
#> 3 SubSpecies    SubSpeci~ Primary key, an integer  automatically generated  to ~
#> 4 Tree          SubSpeci~ Foreign Key to  SubSpecies table, indicating the subs~
#> 5 ViewTaxonomy  Subspeci~ Foreign Key to  SubSpecies table, indicating the subs~