13 Hands On: Clean and Integrate Datasets

13.1 Learning Objectives

In this lesson, you will:

  • Clean and integrate two datasets using dplyr and tidyr
  • Make use of previously-learned knowledge of dplyr and tidyr

13.2 Outline

In this one block, you will load data from the following two datasets into R,

  • Alaska Department of Fish and Game. 2017. Daily salmon escapement counts from the OceanAK database, Alaska, 1921-2017. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity. doi:10.5063/F1TX3CKH
  • Andrew Munro and Eric Volk. 2017. Summary of Pacific Salmon Escapement Goals in Alaska with a Review of Escapements from 2007 to 2015. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity. doi:10.5063/F1TQ5ZRG

and then clean, and integrate them together to answer a research question:

Are Sockeye salmon escapement goals being met in recent years in Bristol Bay?

Depending on your familiarity with dplyr and tidyr, you will probably want to look up how to do things. I suggest two strategies:

  1. Look back on the Data Cleaning and Manipulation lesson
  2. Use the official dplyr documentation
  3. Once you know what function to use, use R’s built-in help by prepending a ? to the function name and running that (e.g., run ?select to get help on the select function)

13.3 High-level steps

The goal here is for you to have to come up with the functions to do the analysis with minimal guidance. This is supposed to be hard. Below is a set of high-level steps you can follow to answer our research question. After the list is a schematic of the steps in table form which I expect will be useful in guiding your code.

Note: This need not be the exaxct order your code is written in.

  1. Load our two datasets
    • Load the escapement goals CSV into R as a data.frame

      Andrew Munro and Eric Volk. 2017. Summary of Pacific Salmon Escapement Goals in Alaska with a Review of Escapements from 2007 to 2015. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.

      • Right-click and copy address for the file MandV2016
    • Load the escapement counts CSV into R as a data.frame

      Alaska Department of Fish and Game. 2017. Daily salmon escapement counts from the OceanAK database, Alaska, 1921-2017. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.

      • Right-click and copy address for the file ADFG_firstAttempt_reformatted.csv
  2. Clean
    1. Clean the escapement goals dataset
      1. Filter to just the Bristol Bay region and the Sockeye salmon species
      2. Check whether the column types are wrong and fix any issues (Hint: One column has the wrong type)
    2. Clean the escapement counts dataset
      1. Filter to just the Bristol Bay region and the Sockeye salmon species
      2. Filter to just stocks we have escapement goals for
      3. Create new columns for the year, month, and day so we can calculate total escapements by year and stock
    3. Calculate annual total escapements for each stock
  3. Integrate
    • Join the escapement goal lower and upper bounds onto the annual total escapement counts (Hint: We don’t need all the columns)
  4. Analyze
    • Make a table listing annual total escapements and whether they were in the escapement goal range or not
    • Calculate the proportion of years, for each stock, total escapement was within the escapement goal range

13.3.1 Visual schematic of steps

Make this:

        System    Lower     Upper     Initial.Year
 Kvichak River  2000000  10000000     2010
  Naknek River   800000   2000000     2015
  Egegik River   800000   2000000     2015
 Ugashik River   500000   1400000     2015
    Wood River   700000   1800000     2015
 Igushik River   150000   400000      2015
Nushagak River   260000   760000      2012
Nushagak River   370000   900000      2015

and then make this:

     Location  Year Escapement
 Egegik River  2012    1233900
 Egegik River  2013    1113630
 Egegik River  2014    1382466
 Egegik River  2015    2160792
 Egegik River  2016    1837260
Igushik River  2012     193326
Igushik River  2013     387744
Igushik River  2014     340590
Igushik River  2015     651172
Igushik River  2016     469230

and join them together to make this:

     Location  Year Escapement  Lower   Upper is_in_range
 Egegik River  2012    1233900 800000 2000000        TRUE
 Egegik River  2013    1113630 800000 2000000        TRUE
 Egegik River  2014    1382466 800000 2000000        TRUE
 Egegik River  2015    2160792 800000 2000000       FALSE
 Egegik River  2016    1837260 800000 2000000        TRUE
Igushik River  2012     193326 150000  400000        TRUE
Igushik River  2013     387744 150000  400000        TRUE
Igushik River  2014     340590 150000  400000        TRUE
Igushik River  2015     651172 150000  400000       FALSE
Igushik River  2016     469230 150000  400000       FALSE

13.4 Full solution

Warning: Spoilers!

First we’ll load our packages:

Then download our two data files and save them as data.frames:

First, we’ll clean up the escapement goals data.frame to have just the rows and columns we need and display it:

Then we’ll clean up and summarize the escapement counts data.frame, join the escapement goals data.frame onto it, and calculate whether goals have been met:

Finally join the two tables and display the final table: