assign_alk_attributes {halk}

Assign associated age-length key attributes to a data.frame

Description

This is just a helper function to assign the needed attributes and classes to a data.frame that is produced by either make_alk or make_halk.

Usage

assign_alk_attributes(
  data,
  size_col = "length",
  age_col = "age",
  autobin = TRUE,
  size_bin = 1,
  min_age = NULL,
  plus_group = NULL,
  alk_n = NULL,
  classes = "alk",
  dnorm_params = NULL,
  levels = NULL
)

Arguments

data

A data.frame

size_col

Character. Name of the column representing sizes

age_col

Character. Name of the column representing ages

autobin

Logical to set the attribute of autobin

size_bin

Numeric. What is the width of size bins

min_age

Numeric. The minimum age that was included in the alk

plus_group

Numeric. The age that represents the plus group

alk_n

Numeric. The number of samples that went into creating the alk

classes

Character. The class that should get prepended to the data.frame class(es)

dnorm_params

The value of parameters that went into creating the normal distributions on the age groups

levels

Character vector of the levels used. This creates the "levels" attribute if present

Value

A data.frame with associated attributes assigned