GetVT: Obtain VT table from Track

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Obtain VT table from Track

Description

The VT table computes speeds, step lengths, orientations, turning angles and ancillary variables from a track. The output of this function is (typically) meant to feed the WindowSweep function.

Usage

GetVT(Data, units = "hour", skiplast = TRUE)

Arguments

Data	a track to analyze. Must contain columns: X, Y and Time (as a POSIX object). The track class is a robust entry.
units	the time units for the analysis; one of sec, min, hour, day.
skiplast	filters away last step.

Value

a data frame with the following columns:

Z.start, Z.end	the start and end locations (as complex coordinates)
S	the step length
Phi, Theta	absolute and turning angle, respectively
T.start, T.end	start and time of steps (numeric - in given units)
T.mid	temporal midpoint of the step
dT	duration of the step
V	approximate speed (S/dT)
T.POSIX	the temporal midpoint of the step as a POSIX objects.

Author(s)

Eliezer Gurarie

See Also

WindowSweep

Examples

data(Simp)
plot(Simp)
Simp.VT <- GetVT(Simp)
head(Simp.VT)
# Distribution of estimated speeds
hist(Simp.VT$V, col="grey", breaks=20)
# Distribution of turning angles

if (requireNamespace("circular", quietly = TRUE)) 
   circular::rose.diag(Simp.VT$Theta, bins=24) else
     hist(Simp.VT$Theta)

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