This function allows you to calculate the Simpson's diversity index in a categorical landscape in vector data format, Simpson's diversity index is diversity index

vm_l_sidi(landscape, class_col)

Arguments

landscape

the input landscape image,

class_col

the name of the class column of the input landscape

Value

the returned calculated index is in column "value", and this function returns also some important information such as level and metric name, Moreover, class number and the "id" column, although both are "NA" here in the landscape level

Examples

vm_l_sidi(vector_landscape, "class")
#> # A tibble: 1 × 5
#>   level     class id    metric value
#>   <chr>     <chr> <chr> <chr>  <dbl>
#> 1 landscape NA    NA    sidi   0.613