Delete empty rows and columns from a relevé table

This function deletes the empty rows and columns from a relevé table.

Usage

clean_table(
  x,
  absence.values = c(".", "0"),
  preserve.cols = NULL,
  preserve.rows = NULL
)

Arguments

x

matrix A relevé table.

absence.values

character A vector, with values representing absences. Defaults to c(".","0").

preserve.cols

numeric A vector containing the indices of the columns that should not be considered while cleaning (e.g., that don't correspond to relevés, but to taxa names).

preserve.rows

numeric A vector containing the indices of the rows that should not be considered while cleaning (e.g., that don't correspond to taxa, but to header lines).

Value

A matrix as (x), possibly without empty rows and without empty columns.

Details

This function deletes the empty rows and columns from a relevé table. Row (Columns) names from deleted rows (columns) will be lost. Column and row order might be changed, as preserved columns (preserve.cols) are placed on the left part of the output, and preserved rows (preserve.rows) are placed in the top part of the output.

Author

Tiago Monteiro-Henriques. E-mail: tmh.dev@icloud.com.