Evaluate Missing Data within a SoilProfileCollection

Evaluate missing data within a SoilProfileCollection object

Data completeness is evaluated by profile or by horizon. Profile-level evaluation is based on the thickness of horizons (method = absolute) with complete horizon-level attributes (vars), optionally divided by the total thickness (method = relative). The REGEX pattern (p) is used to filter non-soil horizons from the calculation.

evalMissingData(
  x,
  vars,
  name = hzdesgnname(x),
  p = "Cr|R|Cd",
  method = c("relative", "absolute", "horizon")
)

Arguments

x: SoilProfileCollection object
vars: character vector, naming horizon-level attributes in x
name: character, the name of a horizon-level attribute where horizon designations are stored, defaults to hzdesgnname(x)
p: character, REGEX pattern used to match non-soil horizons
method: character, one of: 'relative' (proportion of total) depth, 'absolute' depth, or 'horizon' (fraction not-missing by horizon)

Value

A vector values ranging from 0 to 1 (method = 'relative') or 0 to maximum depth in specified depth units (method = 'absolute') representing the quantity of non-missing data (as specified in vars) for each profile. When method = 'horizon' a non-missing data fraction is returned for each horizon.

Author

D.E. Beaudette

Examples


# example data
data("jacobs2000")

# fully populated
plotSPC(jacobs2000, name.style = 'center-center', 
        cex.names = 0.8, color = 'time_saturated')


# missing some data
plotSPC(jacobs2000, name.style = 'center-center', 
        cex.names = 0.8, color = 'concentration_color')


# very nearly complete
plotSPC(jacobs2000, name.style = 'center-center', 
        cex.names = 0.8, color = 'matrix_color')



# variables to consider
v <- c('time_saturated', 'concentration_color', 'matrix_color')

# compute data completeness by profile
# ignore 2C horizons
jacobs2000$data.complete <- evalMissingData(
  jacobs2000, 
  vars = v, 
  method = 'relative',
  p = '2C'
)

jacobs2000$data.complete.abs <- evalMissingData(
  jacobs2000, 
  vars = v, 
  method = 'absolute',
  p = '2C'
)

# compute data completeness by horizon
# ignore 2C horizons
jacobs2000$hz.data.complete <- evalMissingData(
  jacobs2000, 
  vars = v, 
  method = 'horizon',
  p = '2C'
)


# "fraction complete" by horizon
plotSPC(
  jacobs2000, name.style = 'center-center', 
  cex.names = 0.8, color = 'hz.data.complete'
)



# rank on profile completeness
new.order <- order(jacobs2000$data.complete)

# plot along data completeness ranking
plotSPC(
  jacobs2000, name.style = 'center-center', 
  cex.names = 0.8, color = 'concentration_color', 
  plot.order = new.order
)

# add relative completeness axis
# note re-ordering of axis labels
axis(
  side = 1, at = 1:length(jacobs2000), 
  labels = round(jacobs2000$data.complete[new.order], 2),
  line = 0, cex.axis = 0.75
)

# add absolute completeness (cm)
axis(
  side = 1, at = 1:length(jacobs2000), 
  labels = jacobs2000$data.complete.abs[new.order],
  line = 2.5, cex.axis=0.75
)