RoME (version 0.2.4)

check_step_length_distr: The function verifies that in TC the length measures are reported with the correct precision.

Description

Fishes and cephalopods length classes must have full or half step (in case of LENGTH_CLASSES_CODE=1 only full). All the measures , must be integer numbers.

Usage

check_step_length_distr(ResultData,year,wd,suffix)

Value

The function returns TRUE if no error occurs, while FALSE is returned when the step is not correctly used. In the logfile is reported the list of all the records in which the inconsistency is detected.

Arguments

ResultData

alternatively: Biological data table (TC) and Individual data table (TE).

year

reference year for the analysis

wd

Working directory selected by the user.

suffix

Suffix string of the Logfile.

Author

I. Bitetto, W. Zupa

Details

According to the MEDITS protocol, Fishes and cephalopods length measurement must collected full or half step and all the measures, must be integer numbers. Empty (NA) records in LENGHT_CLASS field are removed from the analysis being empty fields already detected by check_no_empty_fields function.

References

Anonymus. 2017. MEDITS-Handbook. Version n. 9. MEDITS Working Group. 106 pp.

Examples

data <- RoME::TC
wd=tempdir()
year = 2007
suffix= "2020-03-05_time_h17m44s55"
check_step_length_distr(data,year,wd,suffix)