ConvertFishbaseFood {dietr}

Converts FishBase/SealifBase food item diet data obtained from the diet function into a usable format for dietr

Description

Converts FishBase/SealifBase food item diet data obtained from the diet function into a usable format for dietr

Usage

ConvertFishbaseFood(FishBaseFood, ExcludeStage = NULL)

Arguments

FishBaseFood

a data frame produced by the rfishbase fooditem function

ExcludeStage

a character, indicating which life stages to exclude. Must match stage names given by rfishbase (i.e. larvae, rec./juveniles, juv./adults, adults).

Details

This converts the data frame produced by rfishbase fooditem function into a usable format for dietr.

Value

a list of length two, with two data frames. One containing the re-formatted food item data and one containing the Taxonomy with species names.

Author(s)

Samuel Borstein

Examples

#Get rfishbase food item data for a few species
my.food <- as.data.frame(rfishbase::fooditems(c("Lutjanus apodus","Epinephelus itajara")))
#use the ConvertFishbaseFood function to format it for dietr and exclude recruits/juveniles
cleaned.food <- ConvertFishbaseFood(FishBaseFood=my.food, ExcludeStage=c("larvae","recruits/juv."))