SLAM

The SLAM package is designed to simulate fishery dynamics and data, and to apply an age-structured assessment model to simulated or real fishery data, for a short-lived semelparous species such as octopus.

Installation

The SLAM package can be installed directly from GitHub. A couple of prerequisites are required to install SLAM from GitHub. RTools is required because the package uses TMB. The devtools package can check if RTools is installed on your system:

# Load `devtools` if it's installed
chk <- require('devtools')

# install `devtools` if necessary
if (!chk) {
  install.packages('devtools')
  library('devtools')
}

# Check if RTools is installed
if (!devtools::find_rtools()) {
  stop('RTools needs to be installed')
}

If you get an error message after running the code above, you need to install RTools. Instructions for installing RTools for Windows machines are available here. A quick web search will find similar instructions for installing RTools on OS machines.

Installing SLAM

Once RTools is installed, SLAM can be installed with:

devtools::install_github('blue-matter/SLAM')

Help Documentation and User Guide

Help Documentation and a User Guide for the SLAM package are available on the SLAM homepage.