Check data has required columns. — atl_check

An internal function that checks that the data.table has the required columns. Used within most, if not all, other atlastools functions.

atl_check_data(data, names_expected = c("x", "y", "time"))

Arguments

data	The tracking data to check for required columns. Must be in the form of a data.frame or similar, which can be handled by the function colnames.
names_expected	The names expected as a character vector. By default, checks for the column names `x, y, time`.

None. Breaks if the data does not have required columns.

Pratik R. Gupte

# basic (and only) use
if (FALSE) {
atl_check_data(
  data = data,
  names_expected = c("x", "y", "time")
)
}