Check the validity of an `fluvgeo` `flowline` data structure

Checks that the input data structure `flowline` meets the required legacy field, line geometry, CRS, cardinality and stationing requirements for the selected processing step.

check_flowline(flowline, step = c("create_flowline", "profile_points"))

Arguments

flowline

sf: a `flowline` data structure used by the fluvgeo package.

step

character; last completed processing step. One of "create_flowline", "profile_points"

Value

Returns TRUE if the `flowline` data structure matches the requirements. The function throws an error for a data structure not matching the data specification. Returns errors describing how the the data structure doesn't match the requirement.