split_cap_hist {Petersen}

Split a vector of capture histories into a matrix with one column for each occasion

Description

Split a vector of capture histories into a matrix with one column for each occasion

Usage

split_cap_hist(cap_hist, sep = "", n = 2, prefix = "t", make.numeric = FALSE)

Arguments

cap_hist

A vector of capture histories.

sep

What separates the individual history values

n

Number of sampling events in each history

prefix

Prefix for labeling columns of matrix

make.numeric

Change the expanded columns to numeric from character?

Details

@template data.cap_hist

Value

A matrix of capture histories with 1 column per sampling event

Examples

# standard 2 character capture histor
data(data_rodli)
Petersen::split_cap_hist(data_rodli$cap_hist)

# history vector with ".." separating the fields
test <- c("1..1","1..0")
split_cap_hist(test, sep=stringr::fixed(".."))