getLength.Rd
Get length for PacFIN commercial samples in millimeters.
Lengths are converted for skates from type R and A to actual lengths.
Other, more standard lengths, are filtered for types in keep
.
getLength(Pdata, verbose = TRUE, keep)
A data frame of biological samples
originating from the
Pacific Fishieries Information Network (PacFIN) data warehouse,
which originated in 2014. Data are pulled using sql calls, see
PullBDS.PacFIN()
.
A logical specifying if output should be written to the
screen or not. Good for testing and exploring your data but can be turned
off when output indicates information that you already know. The printing
of output to the screen does not affect any of the returned objects. The
default is to always print to the screen, i.e., verbose = TRUE
.
A vector of values that represent what you want to keep. Values
of NA
, ""
, and numeric values are acceptable. Often, it is helpful to
run `unique(, useNA = "always") on the relevant data prior to running the
function to see what types are present.
A vector of lengths in millimeters. Values of NA
indicate that
the length should not be used in down-stream calculations.