PAMscapes (version 0.11.3)

binSoundscapeData: Summarise Soundscape Data by Time Bin

Description

Bins soundscape measurements by a unit of time and summarises them using a function (usually the median)

Usage

binSoundscapeData(
  x,
  bin = "1hour",
  method = c("median", "mean"),
  binCount = FALSE,
  extraCols = NULL
)

Value

a summarised version of the input data.frame x

Arguments

x

a data.frame of soundscape metric data read in with loadSoundscapeData

bin

amount of time to bin data by, format can be "#Unit" e.g. '2hour' or '1day'

method

summary function to apply to data in each time bin, must be one of "median" or "mean"

binCount

logical flag to return the number of times in each time bin as column "binCount"

extraCols

Additional non-frequency columns in x to apply the binning to

Author

Taiki Sakai