prepare_tag_sheet: Loads the OTN tagging metadata sheet to prepare it for use in...

In ocean-tracking-network/glatos: A package for the Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System

Loads the OTN tagging metadata sheet to prepare it for use in convert_otn_to_att

Description

Loads the OTN tagging metadata sheet to prepare it for use in convert_otn_to_att

Usage

prepare_tag_sheet(path, header_line = 5, sheet_name = 2)

Arguments

path	the path to the tagging sheet
header_line	what line the headers are on
sheet_name	the sheet name or number containing the metadata

Details

The function takes the path to the tagging sheet, what line to start reading the headers from, and what sheet in the excel file to use. It converts column names to be used by convert_otn_to_att.

Value

a data.frame created from the excel file.

Author(s)

Ryan Gosse

Examples

#--------------------------------------------------
# EXAMPLE #1 - loading from NSBS tagging

library(glatos)
tag_path <- system.file("extdata", "otn_nsbs_tag_metadata.xls",
  package = "glatos"
)

tags <- prepare_tag_sheet(tag_path, 5, 2)

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