check_consistencyTA_distance {RoME}R Documentation

Consistency check of distance in TA

Description

The function checks whether the distances reported in the haul data (TA) are consistent with the hauls duration.

Usage

check_consistencyTA_distance(DataTA, year, wd, suffix)

Arguments

DataTA

Haul data table according to MEDITS protocol (TA)

year

reference year for the analysis

wd

working directory path defined by the user

suffix

Suffix string of the Logfile

Details

Check between duration of the haul and distance (tolerance of 15%). The function does not check the presence of NA values in the DISTANCE field that are removed from the analysis. The eventual presence of empty records in the DISTANCE field is checked by the check_no_empty_fields function.

Value

The function generates warning messages in the logfile and returns always TRUE.

Author(s)

I. Bitetto, W. Zupa

References

Anonymus. 2017. MEDITS-Handbook. Version n. 9. MEDITS Working Group. 106 pp.https://www.sibm.it/MEDITS 2011/principaledownload.htm

Examples

wd=tempdir()
suffix="2020-03-05_time_h17m44s55"
check_consistencyTA_distance(RoME::TA,year=2012,wd,suffix)

[Package RoME version 0.1.22 Index]