split_cap_hist: Split a vector of capture histories into a matrix with one...

In Petersen: Estimators for Two-Sample Capture-Recapture Studies

Split a vector of capture histories into a matrix with one column for each occasion

Description

Split a vector of capture histories into a matrix with one column for each occasion

Usage

split_cap_hist(cap_hist, sep = "", n = 2, prefix = "t", make.numeric = FALSE)

Arguments

cap_hist	A vector of capture histories.
sep	What separates the individual history values
n	Number of sampling events in each history
prefix	Prefix for labeling columns of matrix
make.numeric	Change the expanded columns to numeric from character?

Details

@template data.cap_hist

Value

A matrix of capture histories with 1 column per sampling event

Examples

# standard 2 character capture histor
data(data_rodli)
Petersen::split_cap_hist(data_rodli$cap_hist)

# history vector with ".." separating the fields
test <- c("1..1","1..0")
split_cap_hist(test, sep=stringr::fixed(".."))

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