bite_size_scaling: Bite Force Scaling
In mdriver3/AntBite: Ant Bite Force Tester

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) Examples

This function caculate the scaling relationships between the btie force and size of individuals within a species using linear regression. It will also plot these relationships. It uses the bite.summary dataset with the optional size and taxonomy data included (see file_cleaner). It can currently plot up to 3 different morphological measurments head width, head length, and mandible length.

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bite_size_scaling(bite_summary, 
species = "all", min_n = 10, morph_traits, 
plot = TRUE, combine_plots = TRUE)

`bite_summary`	The bite summary dataframe created in the file_cleaner function.
`species`	Species to be included in the plot, arguments are "all", a value or vector of species names, or "all_with_n" all species that have a minimum number of individuals represented in bite summary (value determined by min_n)
`min_n`	The minumum number of individuals to allow being included in the plot via species.
`morph_traits`	A value or vector of the mophological traits to be plotted, possiable values/vector are "width", "lendth", "mandi".
`plot`	Logical should the scaling relationships be plotted.
`combine_plots`	Logical, should multiple morphological traits be combined into a single figure (seperate plots). Note currenlty combine_plots == T can only plot the 3 traits, not any combination of 2 of them.

Note no value is returned but a plot is produced.

Michael Rivera

#Use the file_cleaner function to create a bite.summary dataframe

example_file_path <- system.file("extdata", package = "AntBite")
list.files(example_file_path)
setwd(example_file_path)
output <- file_cleaner(folder = example_file_path, 
size_data = TRUE, size_file = "test_size_data.xlsx")
bite.summary <- output[[1]]

bite_size_scaling(bite.summary, species = "all", min_n = 1, 
morph_traits = c("width", "length", "mandi"), plot = TRUE, combine_plots = TRUE)