TowMetric: Calculate Bay Study Tow Volume or Tow Area.

In jasondubois/sportfish: Methods and Function for CDFW Sportfish Unit Data

Description

TowMetric calculates tow volume if mid-water trawl or other and tow area if otter trawl. Does so by multiplying constants by (flow) meter value or tow distance.

Usage

TowMetric(data, net, meter, distance)

Arguments

data	Dataframe of Bay Study data with at least net type, meter value, and distance towed.
net	Name of field in data holding net type info.
meter	Name of field in data holding meter info.
distance	Name of field in data holding distance.

Value

Numeric vector of tow area or tow volume (depending upon net type).

References

Bay Study metadata (insert link).

Examples

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jasondubois/sportfish documentation built on July 3, 2020, 1:01 p.m.