CRANCOD - DATA PREPARATION

Scripts for data preparation to comply with the CRANCOD software.

INSTRUCTIONS

DATA PREPARATION

The CRANCOD_data_file.xlsx file is meant to be a single file with all the necessary data for the creation of properly formatted input files for CRANCOD.

1. Fill the form in the cfg worksheet with the necessary information. The folder path MUST include the name of the input files without the extension; the proper extension will be added to each output of the CRANCOD_data_preparation script.
2. Copy the data to the dat worksheet, leaving the Ydim column
3. Fill in with the geometry data the geo worksheet, leaving the Ydim column empty in case of circular plots
4. Do not change the .species file

WARNING! The dat and geo worksheets do have the column names to help the data entry: they'll removed automatically from the R script, in order to comply with the rules of CRANCOD.

DATA POST-PROCESSING The 'CRANCOD_post-processing'script is meant to automatically change 'periods' into 'commas' and then produce easily readable files (.csv or .xlsx).