monitor_SCCUdderHealth: Analyse the most important SCC indicators of dairy cow herds

In VZoche-Golob/UdderHealthMonitor: Tools for monitoring the udder health of dairy cow herds using data of the Dairy Herd Improvement Tests

Description

The main function of UdderHealthMonitor. See also Vignette ‘UdderHealthMonitor::User Guide’

Usage

monitor_SCCUdderHealth(PCstart = NULL, Farm = "EnterFarmName",
  Analyst = "EnterYourName", Period = c(from = NULL, to = NULL),
  return_results = FALSE, settings = settings_SCCmonitor(), ...)

Arguments

PCstart	Character of length 1. Full path to the ADIS file to be used for monitoring.
Analyst	A character string, name that should be mentioned as the 'author' of the report.
return_results	If TRUE the dataframes ds_monatlich, ds_12Monate, and ds_stw are returned in a list.
settings	List. See the documentation of settings_SCCmonitor for details.
...	Further arguments passed to inner and report functions (e.g. generate_report for using a user template).
Betriebsname	A character string, the 'name' used for the herd / farm in the report.

Details

See prepare_PCstart for the required input file.

If the arguments PCstart, Betriebsname, and Analyst are not specified in the function call, dialog boxes will be used to ask for them.

See settings_SCCmonitor for the cut-off values to define the indicators.

Value

A report as PDF in the folder of ‘PCstart’ (see also ‘doc/example-report.pdf’). If return_results = TRUE, a list is returned containing the data frames

ds_monatlich

which includes the indicators for the lactation period separately for each of the last 12 months

ds_12Monate

which includes the indicators for the last 12 months together

ds_stw

which includes some indicators for the metabolic status of the herd separately for each of the last 12 months

Note

Currently different 'AE's are ignored and all animals of one herd are analysed together.

At version 0.1 it is not checked yet, whether UdderHealthMonitor uses exactly the definitions of the DLQ guideline 1.15, because the functions of UdderHealthMonitor were written before the publication of the guideline.

References

Visit http://www.milchqplus.de for further descriptions of the udder health indicators.

Have a look at V. Zoche, W. Heuwieser, and V. Kroemker, "Risk-based monitoring of udder health. A review.", Tierärztliche Praxis. Ausgabe G, Grosstiere/Nutztiere, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 88–94, 2011. and these slides for information about monitoring the udder health.

VZoche-Golob/UdderHealthMonitor documentation built on May 9, 2019, 9:42 p.m.