camtrapR (version 0.98.0)

createStationFolders: Create camera trap station directories, optionally with camera subdirectories

Description

This function creates camera trap station directories, if needed with camera subdirectories. They can be used as an initial directory structure for storing raw camera trap images.

Usage

createStationFolders(inDir, 
  stations, 
  cameras
)

Arguments

inDir

character. Directory in which directories are to be created

stations

character. Station IDs to be used as directory names within inDir

cameras

character. Camera trap IDs to be used as subdirectory names in each station directory (optionally)

Value

• A data.frame with station (and possibly camera) directory names and an indicator for whether they were created successfully.

Details

The empty directories this function sets up serve as containers for saving raw camera trap images. If more than 1 camera was set up at a station, specifying cameras makes sense in order to keep images from different cameras separate.

Examples

# create dummy directory for tests (this will be used as inDir)
# (normally, you'd set up an empty directory, e.g. .../raw_images)
wd_createStationDir <- paste(getwd(), "createStationFoldersTest", sep = "/")

# now we load the sample camera trap station data frame
data(camtraps)

# species names for which we want to create subdirectories
stations2create <- as.character(camtraps$Station)

# create station directories in 
StationFolderCreate1 <- createStationFolders (inDir    = wd_createStationDir,
                                              stations = stations2create)
  
StationFolderCreate1

# check if directories were created
list.dirs(wd_createStationDir)