check_year: Consistency check of YEAR field

In RoME: Multiple Checks on MEDITS Trawl Survey Data

Consistency check of YEAR field

Description

The function check if the correct value for YEAR field is reported in each data table. This is a global function that runs with the data frames not filtered by year.

Usage

check_year(TA, TB, TC, TE, TL, years, wd, Errors)

Arguments

TA	Haul data table according to MEDITS protocol (TA)
TB	Catch data table according to MEDITS protocol (TB)
TC	Biological data table according to MEDITS protocol (TC)
TE	Individual biological data table according to MEDITS protocol (TE)
TL	Litter data table according to MEDITS protocol (TL)
years	list of the unique YEAR values in haul data (TA) table
wd	working directory path defined by the user
Errors	logfile name

Details

TA, TB and TC tables are mandatory while TE and TL could be used where available (otherwise use NA value).

Value

The function returns FALSE when errors are detected in the YEAR field of the data tables.

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()
    years <- unique(RoME::TA$YEAR)
    Errors <- file.path(wd,"Logfiles","Logfile.dat")
    check_year(TA=RoME::TA, TB=RoME::TB,
    TC=RoME::TC, TE=NA, TL=NA, years=years,
    wd=wd, Errors=Errors)

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