Read individual characteristics from file

Usage

readIndividualCharacteristicsFromXLS(
  XLSpath,
  individualId,
  sheet = "IndividualBiometrics",
  nullIfNotFound = TRUE
)

Arguments

XLSpath: Full path to the excel file
individualId: (String) Id of the individual as stored in the IndividualId column.
sheet: Name of the sheet. If NULL (default), the first sheet of the file is used.
nullIfNotFound: Boolean. If TRUE (default), NULL is returned if no entry with the give individualId exists. Otherwise, an error is thrown.

Value

An IndividualCharacteristics object

Details

Read individual characteristics from an excel sheet and create an IndividualCharacteristics-object. The excel sheet must have the columns IndividualId, Species, Population, Gender, Weight [kg], Height [cm], Age [year(s)], Protein, and Ontogeny.