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USGS Climate Science Center funded project: fine scale climate downscaling, traits and niche models
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raster code in sdm model building is unnecessary #37

Closed dschwilk closed 7 years ago

dschwilk commented 7 years ago

We have a lot of code and computation devoted to splitting up our climate data into separate variables, then re-assembling as a raster stack, then extracting just plot locations. This is overkill for what is essentially a simple merge or join. I suggest we replace all of that code with geo_join() from the fuzzy_join package. This will make it much easier to combine data from all three mtn ranges for species distribution models.

dschwilk commented 7 years ago

OK, on second thought, since we want raster maps at the end anyway, I guess I'll leave the raster code, but we still need to put all the plot data in one dataframe for modeling. I will not introduce a new dependency by using fuzzyjoin.

hpoulos commented 7 years ago

Totally. Just wanted you to hey my baby steps.

On Aug 4, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Dylan Schwilk notifications@github.com wrote:

We have a lot of code and computation devoted to splitting up our climate data into separate variables, then re-assembling as a raster stack, then extracting just plot locations. This is overkill for what is essentially a simple merge or join. I suggest we replace all of that code with geo_join() from the fuzzy_join package. This will make it much easier to combine data from all three mtn ranges for species distribution models.

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