Read in a weight-at-age data file into a data frame in R.
SS_readwtatage(file = "wtatage.ss", verbose = TRUE)
A relative or full path to the weight-at-age file.
The default values is wtatage.ss
.
A logical value specifying if output should be printed
to the screen. The default is verbose = TRUE
.
Returns a data frame with a variable number of columns based on the number of ages that are included in the file. Though, the first columns will always be Yr, Seas, Sex, Bio_Pattern, BirthSeas, and Fleet. The seventh column will be age zero. The last or next to last column will be the maximum age included in the weight-at-age data. For SS version 3.30 and greater, the last column will be a column of comments.