SS_readwtatage {r4ss}

Read weight-at-age data file

Description

Read in a weight-at-age data file into a data frame in R.

Usage

SS_readwtatage(file = "wtatage.ss", verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

file

Filename either with full path or relative to working directory.

See the formal arguments for a possible default filename.

verbose

A logical value specifying if output should be printed to the screen.

Value

Returns a data frame with a variable number of columns based on the number of ages that are included in the file. Though, the first columns will always be Yr, Seas, Sex, Bio_Pattern, BirthSeas, and Fleet. The seventh column will be age zero. The last or next to last column will be the maximum age included in the weight-at-age data. For SS version 3.30 and greater, the last column will be a column of comments.

Author(s)

Kelli F. Johnson, Ian G. Taylor