exportBirds: Export single variables from SummarisedBirds objects
In BIRDS: Biodiversity Information Review and Decision Support

Description Usage Arguments Value Note Examples

Export single variables from SummarisedBirds objects

1	exportBirds(x, dimension, timeRes, variable, method = "sum")

`x`	a SummarizedBirds-object
`dimension`	a character string indicating if the export should be `"spatial"` or `"temporal"`
`timeRes`	A character string indicating what temporal resolution should be used. For Spatial export the function accepts `NULL, "yearly", "monthly"` or `"month"`. For temporal export the function accepts `"yearly", "monthly", "daily"` or `"month"`.
`variable`	a character string indicating which variable should be exported, `"nObs", "nVis", "nSpp", "nDays", "nCells"` or `"avgSll"` . For `timeRes = c(NULL, "month")` the function also accepts `"nYears"`.
`method`	Only applicable to `timeRes = "month"`. A variable specifying which statistical method should be applied. The function accepts `"sum", "median", "mean"`.

an xts time series (if dimension = "temporal"), a named vector (if dimension = "temporal" and timeRes = "month"), or a sf (if dimension = "spatial")

the difference between timeRes = "monthly" and timeRes = "month" is that the former returns "n.years x 12" values, while month summarize over years and returns only 12 values aplying the method among years. For more details over the possible combinations of dimensions and variables please refer to the vignette "Technical details".

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grid <- makeGrid(searchPolygon, gridSize = 10)
SB <- summariseBirds(organizeBirds(bombusObsShort), grid=grid)
EB <- exportBirds(SB, "spatial", "month", "nDays", "median")