New turtles variable

Create a new variable for the turtles.

turtlesOwn(turtles, tVar, tVal)

# S4 method for agentMatrix,character,missing
turtlesOwn(turtles, tVar)

# S4 method for agentMatrix,character,ANY
turtlesOwn(turtles, tVar, tVal)

Arguments

turtles

AgentMatrix object representing the moving agents.

tVar

Character. the name of the turtles variable to create.

tVal

Vector representing the values of tVar. Must be of length 1 or of length turtles. If missing, NA is given.

Value

AgentMatrix representing the turtles with the new variable tVar added.

References

Wilensky, U. 1999. NetLogo. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/. Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.

See also

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/docs/dictionary.html#turtles-own

Author

Sarah Bauduin

Examples

t1 <- createTurtles(n = 5, coords = cbind(xcor = 0, ycor = 0))
t1 <- turtlesOwn(turtles = t1, tVar = "sex", tVal = c("F", "F", "F", "M", "M"))