visits: Get/set the visits

In BIRDS: Biodiversity Information Review and Decision Support

Description

Gets or sets the visits identifier for a OrganizedBirds-class.

Usage

visits(x, name=NULL)

visits(x, name = NULL, useAsDefault = TRUE) <- value

Arguments

x	An OrganizedBirds-object
name	The name of the visit column. Default is NULL, which will get/write to the predefined visit column (visitUID).
useAsDefault	Specifies if the defined column in name should be used as the default column for the visits in further analysis. If name is NULL and useAsDefault = TRUE, value will be written to column (visitUID) and that column will be set to default.
value	the value to assign

Examples

ob <- organizeBirds(bombusObs)
attr(ob, "visitCol")
vis <- visits(ob)
tmp.vis <- createVisits(bombusObs,
                        idCols=c("locality"),
                        timeCols = c("day", "month", "year"),
                        gridIdCol = "id")
visits(ob, name = "visNoRecorder", useAsDefault = TRUE) <- tmp.vis
vis2 <- visits(ob)
attr(ob, "visitCol")

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