Write official DAISIE data standard documentation
joshwlambert opened this issue · comments
I think an overview in the main DAISIEmainland::DAISIEmainland doc would be the best place for that. I volunteer to do all the island structures :-)
I have tried writing up the data standards in DAISIEmainland::DAISIEmainland but I feel it is better suited to a vignette.
@richelbilderbeek do you think all data structures should have the suffix *_data?
I have tried writing up the data standards in DAISIEmainland::DAISIEmainland but I feel it is better suited to a vignette.
Cool, looking forward to see it!
@richelbilderbeek do you think all data structures should have the suffix *_data?
I feel that, usually, data is redundant or inexpressive. As an exampke, in English we usually speak about colonisation history or community ontology, instead of colonisation data. Especially a word like datalist says exactly nothing; better would be to express of what it is the data of.
As always, feel free to ignore :-)
@richelbilderbeek thanks for the tips, I decided to keep the data suffix as for some it gave clarity and I use it for all for consistency. Let me know if you're happy with the naming and I will start changing the names currently used in the package. See #5cc1708 on standards branch.
Nice!
I've taken a look at the vignette, I feel it is a good start!
I see the use of the multi_prefix when using _data as a suffix, as the singular of _data equals the plural _data, and _datas is not exactly English. However, for _clade, English has the plural _clades. Well, I guess you prefer multi_ for consistency, so having said that, I think these are good conventions :-)