`niter` is only available via `write_SS_summary()` and not `write_big_report()`

[kellijohnson-NOAA]

https://github.com/nmfs-stock-synthesis/stock-synthesis/blob/0adb061cf7d7fb635ea34b346ed53b9894c5f7ad/SS_write.tpl#L388

Any objection to adding the number of iterations to Report.sso?

[Rick-Methot-NOAA]

fine by me. Shall I add it to the Tweedie & D-M branch now under review?

[kellijohnson-NOAA]

That would be great @Rick-Methot-NOAA . Thank you.

[iantaylor-NOAA]

This issue helped me realize that I was accidentally returning the new values as characters and not numeric. That's been fixed in r4ss commit r4ss/r4ss@9590ba1. The new output is returned by SS_output() as $N_iterations and $Final_phase.