check_consistencyTA_distance: Consistency check of distance in TA

In RoME: Multiple Checks on MEDITS Trawl Survey Data

Consistency check of distance in TA

Description

The function checks whether the distances reported in the haul data (TA) are consistent with the hauls duration.

Usage

check_consistencyTA_distance(DataTA, year, wd, suffix)

Arguments

DataTA	Haul data table according to MEDITS protocol (TA)
year	reference year for the analysis
wd	working directory path defined by the user
suffix	Suffix string of the Logfile

Details

Check between duration of the haul and distance (tolerance of 15%). The function does not check the presence of NA values in the DISTANCE field that are removed from the analysis. The eventual presence of empty records in the DISTANCE field is checked by the check_no_empty_fields function.

Value

The function generates warning messages in the logfile and returns always TRUE.

Author(s)

I. Bitetto, W. Zupa

References

Anonymus. 2017. MEDITS-Handbook. Version n. 9. MEDITS Working Group. 106 pp.https://www.sibm.it/MEDITS%202011/principaledownload.htm

Examples

wd=tempdir()
suffix="2020-03-05_time_h17m44s55"
check_consistencyTA_distance(RoME::TA,year=2012,wd,suffix)

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