Read in deployment log

The log must be saved in .csv, .xlsx or .xls format. Value checks are applied in ss_parse_log().

Usage

ss_read_log(path, parse = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

path

File path to the log folder, or full path to the log file, include file name and extension. The function will stop with an Error if there is more than one eligible file (csv, .xlsx or .xls) in the log folder.

parse

Logical argument indicating whether to parse log into a list used by ss_compile_* functions.

verbose

Logical argument indicating whether to print messages when values are missing. Warnings will still be printed.

Value

Returns a a data frame of the deployment metadata. Option to parse the information into a list using ss_parse_log().

Details

"Old" log column names will be converted to the new standard (.e.,g "Location_Description" will be replaced with "station").