generateTestTbls: Generate a List of Related Data Tables

In ices-tools-dev/icesRDBES: Functions for the ICES Regional Database and Estimation System (RDBES)

Generate a List of Related Data Tables

Description

Generates a named list of data tables that follow the structure of RDBESDataObject. The tables only have columns required for testing The generate tables

Usage

generateTestTbls(tblNames, prevTbls = list(), ...)

Arguments

tblNames	character vector of table names to be created
prevTbls	list of data.tables upstream of the generated table. Defaults to empty list
...	Arguments passed on to makeTbl tblName Name of the table rows numeric number of rows per parent record. Defaults to 4. propSamp numeric proportion of how many of total are sampled. This is ignored for "CENSUS". Defaults to 0.5 selMeth character selection method used. Defaults to "CENSUS". Others like SRSWR or SRSSWOR can be used as well stratums character vector of the stratum names to be created. Defaults to c("U"), meaning not stratified. mean numeric the expected mean of the target variable. The variable is created using rnorm and saved under column ending with "y". Defaults to 5.

Value

a list of named data.table's

Examples

## Not run: 
generateTestTbls(c("A", "B", "C"), selMeth = "SRSWOR")
generateTestTbls(LETTERS[1:5]) # makes 5 tables with method CENSUS

## End(Not run)

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