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Bins a global range size (km^2) into an ordered rarity class. Defaults are a starting point to tune against the v8 range-size distribution.

Usage

rarity_class(
  range_km2,
  breaks = c(10000, 1e+05, 1e+06),
  labels = c("very_rare", "rare", "common", "widespread")
)

Arguments

range_km2

numeric vector of range sizes (km^2)

breaks

upper bounds (km^2) between classes (default c(1e4, 1e5, 1e6))

labels

ordered class labels (length length(breaks) + 1)

Value

an ordered factor of rarity classes