Location of calculated covariates

[sigmafelix]

I keep calculated covariates in several rds files in my user directory. Do we put calculated covariates into under the input directory, for example, ./input/data/[data_element]/calculated or ./output?

[kyle-messier]

@sigmafelix I think this is more relevant to what I just bothered y'all about. I think having ./input/data/[data_element] for raw data and then ./output is good as long as we can put those on the .gitignore and .Rbuildignore and not impact the package compilation.

[eva0marques]

What do you mean by calculated covariate? Is it a new raster or you calculate for monitor data?

[sigmafelix]

@eva0marques Covariates that are calculated at sites. I think converted rasters (i.e., NLCD tiffs) should be in ./input/data/nlcd

[eva0marques]

Ok, as an stdt format?

[sigmafelix]

I'd prefer storing plain data.frames at the moment as we already have functions to convert generic data.frames into stdt. Converting a joined data.frame into stdt will be efficient, I suppose.

[eva0marques]

Ok so basically .csv files with "lat", "lon", "time" columns + covariates with crs EPSG:4326.