read.data: Construct ACME Sufficient Statistics

In acmeR: Implements ACME Estimator of Bird and Bat Mortality by Wind Turbines

Description

Reads in an event-level dataset of carcass placements and searches and constructs a carcass-level and search-level table of sufficient statistics.

Usage

read.data(fname = "acme-sim.csv", spec = "", blind = TRUE,
  tz = "PST8PDT")

Arguments

fname	Data, either a string for csv files or a data frame name
spec	Species subset. Default is empty string.
blind	logial. If TRUE, ensures FT are always unaware of carcasses
tz	Time Zone. Default is US West Coast

Value

read.data returns an invisible list with components:

scav	carcass-level table of removal data
srch	event-level table or searcher proficiency data
Ik	summary (count, average, sd) of FT Search Intervals
Sk	summary (count, average, sd) PFM check intervals
NP.Spec	number of without a "Placed" event
NP.ID	number of birds without a "Placed" event
fn	name of data - parameter fname
Info	list of select system information

acmeR documentation built on May 2, 2019, 9:24 a.m.