import.paces.f: Import data from the PACES output into R

In duplisea/size: Size based indicators for the northern Gulf of St Lawrence groundfish survey

Description

Imports data into R from the PACES .csv output. It also saves them as R binary data files in your working directory. It also harmonises field names and selects on type 1 and 2 sets and changes some field names and create new useful fields. It create other data tables for computing the PLF indicators and basic data tables for other calculations. You will only run this function when there is an update to the PACES data. once it is done, just load the datafiles before running your analysis. Note that the package comes with the data but it might get out of date. In this case once you import updated data you need to make sure you keep using that updated data since there will always be older data available in the package. i.e. you might not get an error and your analysis will continue to run fine but with the data that comes with the package.

Usage

import.paces.f(data.directory, save.rda = F)

Arguments

data.directory	where your PACES .csv files are stored, e.g. "s:/releves..."
save.rda	saves the paces data to .rda files which are compact and easy to work with in later sessions

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