extractLW: Extracts annual length-weight data

In dempseydanielle/SSdata: Extracts Fishery Independent and Commercial Landings Data for the Scotian Shelf from DFO-Maritimes Databases

Description

Extracts annual length-weight data from fishery independent surveys on the Scotian Shelf.

Usage

extractLW(path, s.year, e.year)

Arguments

path	Filepath indicating where to create folders to store the extracted data.
s.year	Year for which to begin data extraction.
e.year	Year for which to end data extraction.

Details

User must define channel = odbcConnect("ptran", uid = ###, pwd = ###) in the global environment. This channel must have access to the gsinf and gsdet tables from the groundfish database.

Value

This function creates a directory to store extracted data: path/data/lenwgt stores a separate file for each year, called lwyear.RData (object name wt). wt has 4 columns: STRAT, SPECIES, FLEN (length in cm), FWT (weight in g).

References

Modified code from AC's ExtractIndicators/R/biomassData.R

See Also

Other LW functions: LWdataframe, plot_LW

dempseydanielle/SSdata documentation built on May 3, 2020, 5:09 p.m.