contact (version 1.0.1)

calves2018: Real-time location data for 20 calves in June 2018

Description

A dataset containing planar real-time point locations for 20 calves between 00:00:00 on June 1st, 2018 and 23:59:59 UTC on June 3, 2018.

Usage

data(calves2018)

Format

A data frame with 193551 rows and 4 variables:

calftag

a unique identifier for each calf

x

planar x coordinate

y

planar y coordinate

dateTime

UTC date and time at which location fix was obtained

Details

Calves were approximately 1.5-year-old castrated male cattle (i.e., steer) kept in a 30 X 35 m2 pen at the Kansas State University Beef Cattle Research Center in Manhattan, KS.

Data collection was supported by U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) grant R01GM117618 as part of the joint National Science Foundation-NIH-United States Department of Agriculture Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease program.

References

Farthing, T.S., Dawson, D.E., Sanderson, M.W., and Lanzas, C. in Review. Accounting for space and uncertainty in real-time-location- system-derived contact networks. Ecology and Evolution.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data("calves2018") #alternatively, you may use the command: contact::calves2018
head(calves2018)
# }