averageSS {GenEst}

Tabulate an average search schedule from a multi-unit SS data table

Description

Given a multi-unit Search Schedule data table, produce an average search schedule for use in generic detection probability estimation.

Usage

averageSS(data_SS, SSdate = NULL)

Arguments

data_SS

a multi-unit SS data table, for which the average interval will be tabulated. It is assumed that data_SS is properly formatted, with a column of search dates and a column of 1s and 0s for each unit indicating whether the unit was searched on the given date). Other columns are optional, but optional columns should not all contain at least on value that is not a 1 or 0.

SSdate

Column name for the date searched data (optional). if no SSdate is provided, data_SS will be parsed to extract the dates automatically. If there is more than one column with dates, then an error will be thrown and the user will be required to provide the name of the desired dates column.

Value

vector of the average search schedule

Examples

  data(mock)
  avgSS <- averageSS(mock$SS)