fortedata:: data structure issues, including lack of data and missing date columns

[camerclay]

On September 7th, 2021, I finished doing an assessment of all functions in fortedata:: to see how the data that it produces is structured, with a particular emphasis on looking at inconsistent reporting of subplot data (i.e. missing years) as well as any columns that may be completely missing. Here is what I found summarized by function, and per his request, @atkinsjeff is tagged:

fd_canopy_structure:

• [x] plot B02 missing in 2018, D04E missing in 2019 (3 total missing plots).

fd_canopy_structure_summary:

no noted issues.

fd_ceptometer:

• [x] No "year" column is present. 2018-2020 data is present, though. In 2018, only the W subplot is represented, except for B03E where that is present but B03W is not. D04W is missing in 2020.

fd_cwd:

• [x] No "year" column is present. This may not be an issue because there might have only been a 2019 census. Only 2019 represented.

fd_dendro:

• [x] No year column, but 2018-2020 all represented.

fd_double_dendro:

• [x] No year column, and only 2019 and 2020 are represented. May not be an issue- can you not measure dendrobands in their first year? No subplot designation, only tag numbers- is that a problem? Can't assess spread of the subplot data.

fd_hemi_camera:

• [x] No year column. Only 2018, 2019 are present. All subplots seem well represented.

fd_hemi_camera_summary:

• [x] No year column. Data does not appear to actually be a summary. Only 2018, 2019 are represented, just like in fd_hemi_camera. No combined rep/plot/subplot column, although this may not be an issue. All subplot data seem well represented.

fd_inventory:

• [x] Some rows do not have date data, such as row 2670. No year column is present. Data is only from 2018, which may not be an issue. All subplots are represented.

fd_inventory_summary:

• [x] No date data, but that may not be an issue as this is a simple summary table.

fd_leaf_spectrometry:

• [x] No year column. Some data is missing. 2019 is not present. Only D plots are present, which might not be an issue if that is the only location where leaf spectrometry data is taken.

fd_litter:

• [x] Year column is present, but no other date info. This seems to be a non-issue as litter is only taken once a year. Only 2018 is present- 2019 should have already been processed, so this should be updated. All subplots seem well represented.

fd_make_release:

• [x] Function won't run. Might be a non-issue given that its a weird function?

fd_metadata:

• [x] Do I have to check to see if each of these terms do indeed appear in their respective datasets? Otherwise, seems well organized.

fd_mortality:

• [x] No date data, including year. All subplots are represented.

fd_nested_subplots:

• [x] Not sure if there are issues with this. Just a list of nested subplots

fd_observations:

• [x] Not sure if there are issues with this. 2018-2021 represented.

fd_photosynthesis:

• [x] No year column. Only 2018 is represented. All subplots represented.

fd_plot_metadata:

• [x] Much of the latitude, longitude data is missing. Otherwise, likely no major issues as this is a unique metadata set.

fd_plots:

• [x] Likely no major issues. Maybe these lat/long data could be used to support the missing ones from plot_metadata?

fd_publications:

• [x] Very likely that there are no issues.

fd_seedling_sapling:

• [x] No year column. Only 2019, 2020 are present. All subplots seem well represented.

fd_soil_respiration:

• [x] No year column. Some date data are not properly converted to timestamp. Some date data completely missing. 2018, 2019 and 2020 are all represented. Given that the summary produces 128 results (32 plots, 4 years), it is likely that 2021 was uploaded and is just missing its date data.

fd_subcanopy_density:

• [x] Only 2019 present, may not be an issue. Likely no other major structural issues.

fd_subcanopy_diameter:

• [x] No year column. Only 2019, 2020 present. All subplots represented well.

fd_subplots:

• [x] No clear issues. Just another list of subplot data. Can these be consolidated with another metadata-style function?

fd_treatments:

• [x] No clear issues. Again, possible candidate for consolidation?

[atkinsjeff]

Some of the above functions including fd_plots, fd_metadata, fd_observations, fd_plot_metadata are internal functions/data that are used to build the other data sets, Those should be okay. We should recheck the lat/long though. Good point on that one. fd_make_release is a function that creates a the zip/tarball Zenodo DOI-ed version of the package when we decide to make a new update/release version. Thanks again @camerclay this looks great! We can start looking through and tweaking and all.