Misnamed covariate column

[cstawitz]

on lines 39 of make_covariates() you have:

 DF_ip = cbind(sample_data, covariate_data[rep(1, nrow(sample_data)), 
    covariate_names])

Instead of making the covariate column name covariate_names, the covariate column name is covariate_data[rep(1, nrow(sample_data)), covariate_names. This leads to creation of duplicate covariate columns later on and then the rbind(DF_ip,DF_zp) fails. I think you need a statement like the following on the next line to name the covariate column(s) correctly:

names(df)[4:(3+length(covariate_names)] <- covariate_names

[James-Thorson-NOAA]

I think this is already fixed on the development branch. Perhaps I should also push this to the main branch for now as a bug-fix (incrementing the last digit on the semantic version-number). I'll think about doing that in January and feel free to remind me then.

[cstawitz]

Thanks - I will use development for now. The result is that make_covariates is broken in the master branch. if you don't want to push as a hotfix to master, you could make the Remotes: field in the DESCRIPTION of VAST call the development branch of FishStatsUtils instead so those installing it as a VAST dependency get the fix.