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Programmatic R interface to the Neotoma Paleoecological Database.
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Compile geochron table lists & chronology table lists to a data.frame #182

Open SimonGoring opened 9 years ago

SimonGoring commented 9 years ago

In general this is probably just a do.call but it's problematic because the get_chroncontrol does not return the parent site, so we don't know exactly what the parent datasets are (in the worst case):

Currently my proposed solution is this:

chron.list <- get_chroncontrol(1:1000)
compiled.list <- data.frame(site.index = rep(1:length(chron.list), sapply(chron.list, length))
                                               do.call(rbind.data.frame, the chron.list))

The site.index column could then be associated with sites if we know the site order. If the function had inputs for chron.table and assoc.index where assoc.index could be a site, dataset or other site type we could then associate them.