Update an ontology — .updateOntology • arealDB

This function takes a table (spatial) and updates all territorial concepts in the provided gazetteer.

.updateOntology(
  table = NULL,
  threshold = NULL,
  dataseries = NULL,
  ontology = NULL
)

Arguments

table: character(1)
a table that contains a match column as the basis to update the gazetteer.
threshold: numeric(1)
a threshold value above which matches are updated in the gazetteer.
dataseries: character(1)
the source dataseries of the external concepts for which the gazetteer shall be updated.
ontology: onto
path where the ontology/gazetteer is stored.

called for its side-effect of updating a gazetteer