The status of a plate corresponds to the number of analysis steps that have
taken place. A plate that has been initialized but has not yet been analyzed
at all has status 1.
If you add custom analysis steps to a new plate type, you should make sure
to update the status of the plate after each step. You can use
check_step
to ensure that the plate is at an appropriate
status before beginning each step.
status(plate)status(plate) <- value
steps
check_step