Jim Thorson

I previously found the estimates of life-history parameters from FishBase to be unreliable, but the data from FishBase to be consistent with other data sources (see, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/12-1855.1/full). Hence my interest...

please try installing FishStatsUtils via: install_github( "james-thorson/FishStatsUtils", ref="test" ) and report back

please try installing FishStatsUtils via: install_github( "james-thorson/FishStatsUtils", ref="test" ) and report back

This appears to be some problem specific to devtools and your machine. I'm happy to explore a bit with you, but ultimately imagine that it will require someone more experienced...

I'd like to learn more about your goals and use-case before responding. Why do you want to learn more about those "mid-level" function in the old Rmarkdown tutorials rather than...

I'm happy to work with you on documentation for V8.0.0. If you're checking for purposes of improved numerical stability, you might just want to branch V7.0.0 for now.

Ah, you mean that you're using Version="VAST_v7_0_0" but downloaded the development branch of VAST and you're getting this message?

I'm confused -- it sounds like you're using the development branch, but are you using CPP V7.0.0 or V8.0.0 when you get this problem?

So yes, V8.0.0 of the CPP now uses different nomenclature which I will need to document. n_g is the number of extrapolation locations, which is the number of knots if...

It doesn't. You could find those pretty easily and just branch a local version of V7.0.0? or we could chat by email and then you could do a pull request...