Initialize Organism Population

Create data structure with n organisms distributed across life stages. Includes leftist tree structure

Usage

init.population(
  community,
  species,
  n = 200,
  width = 100,
  units = getOrgFeature(community, species, "units"),
  timeit = FALSE,
  reject = Inf,
  position = rtri(n, width),
  colnames = c(leftistnames, paramnames, posnames, eventnames),
  init.stage = istage,
  init.weight = getOrgFuture(community, species, "init"),
  messages = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

community: community structure
species: species name(s) as character string vector
n: number of organisms in population
width: maximum width of dispersal on tridiagonal coordinate system
units: time units (default is getOrgFeature(community,species,"units"))
timeit: print timing information if TRUE
reject: rejection time (default is Inf)
position: initial positions in triangular coordinate system (generated randomly)
colnames: names of columns in data structure (do not change)
init.stage: initial stage of all organisms (default values generated randomly)
init.weight: initial weights for life stages (default taken for organism features)
...: not used

Value

comp1: Description of `comp1'
comp2: Description of `comp2'

...

Details

Does various initializations based in information in future.xxx, where xxx is replaced by the name of the dataset. Normally, init.population is called by init.simulation.

Author

Brian S. Yandell

Examples