extractBV: Extracts measurements from a BV table

In edvinf/prepRECA: Prepares data for running R-ECA

Description

Reshapes BV table into a data.table with each row corresponding to one measured specimen, and the different BV types introduced as individual columns (e.g. age, length weight). @details Checks and halts for heterogenity in length units, weight untits, length measurements, or BVstratification

Usage

extractBV(BVtable, BVtypes, dataTypes)

Arguments

BVtable	data.table() with column names following the RDBES (v 1.17) R-Name specification
BVtypes	a character() vector identifying the BVtypes to introduce as columns (other record types are discarded)
dataTypes	The desired data types for the columns. Currently supported: integer, numeric, character and logical

Value

data.table()

Examples

extractBV(NORportsampling2018$BV, c("Age", "Length", "Weight"), c("integer", "numeric", "numeric"))

edvinf/prepRECA documentation built on Nov. 11, 2019, 6:30 a.m.