Move-class: The Move class

Description

The Move object contains at least time and coordinate information of an animal. It can contain further data that are individual to the animal, e.g. the sex or age. These data are stored in the idData data.frame. If the object was created with the Movebank browsing functions it does also contain the study name, licence and citation information.

Arguments

Slots

idData: Object of class "data.frame": additional (one row) data;
dateCreation: Object of class "numeric": time stamp when the file was downloaded;
study: Object of class "character": name of the study;
citation: Object of class "character": how to cite the study;
license: Object of class "character": the license under which the data were published;
timesMissedFixes: Object of class "POSIXct": stores the timestamps of lines of the data set that were removed because they included NA locations
bbox: belongs to the SpatialPointsDataFrame
coords: coordinates of the track, belongs to the SpatialPointsDataFrame
coords.nrs: belongs to the SpatialPointsDataFrame
data: additional data of that object that is stored in the SpatialPointsDataFrame
proj4string: projection of the coordinates
timestamps: timestamps according to the coordinates

Methods

move: signature(object = "Move"): creates a Move object
getMovebankData: signature(object = "character"): creates a Move object by accessing Movebank
spTransform: signature(object = "Move"): transforms coordinates to a different projection method
show: signature(object = "Move"): prints a summary of all data stored in the Move object
as.data.frame: signature(object = "Move"): extracts the spatial data frame
coordinates: signature(object = "Move"): extracts the coordinates only from the Move object
proj4string: signature(object = "Move"): extracts the projection method from the Move object
time.lag: signature(object = "Move"): calculates time lags between coordinates
n.locs: signature(object = "Move"): calculates number of locations
plot: signature(object = "Move"): plots the track of the animal