track2KBA (version 1.1.2)

move2KBA: Import Movebank data sets for track2KBA analysis

Description

move2KBA imports data from Movebank repository and re-formats them to fit track2KBA functions.

Usage

move2KBA(movebankID = NULL, user = NULL, password = NULL, filename = NULL)

Value

Returns a list object of length two, containing tracking data (accessed using: dataset$data) and study site location information (accessed using: dataset$site) .

Arguments

movebankID

character or numeric. Character: full name of the study, as stored on Movebank. Numeric: Movebank ID of the study. Both can be obtained on the Study Details page on Movebank (https://www.movebank.org) or with getMovebankID.

user

Username associated with your Movebank account.

password

password associated with your Movebank username.

filename

character. File path to .csv downloaded from https://www.movebank.org.

Details

This is a wrapper function for functions in move package to import and format tracking data from Movebank. It also attains study site location data (lat/lons).

See Also

getMovebankData for data download, getMovebank for study metadata, getMovebankID for getting study ID number

Examples

if (FALSE) {

dataset <- move2KBA(movebankID=xxx, user="myusername", password="mypassword")

tracks <- dataset$data  ## access tracking data
site   <- dataset$site    ## access study site coordinates
}