Using the spmm.readxl funciton

The spmm.readxl function is a convenience function for reading in metadata and metapopulation matrices from an .xlsx file. A template and an example are provided. The example workbook is used to illustrate the spmm.readxl functionality below.

The first sheet of the workbook has cells for the user to input metadata. The first five peices of information regard the number of stages (n_stages), the number of patches (n_patches), how projections should be grouped (group_by; either by stages or patches), the order of life history functions (lh_order; either movement then demographic processes or vice versa), and the number of time steps to project into the future (n_timesteps). Following the peregrine falcon example as in the “Getting started…” vignette, the first sheet looks liek this:

Caleb A. Aldridge

2024-12-06