burst: Bursting a track

In move: Visualizing and Analyzing Animal Track Data

Bursting a track

Description

Bursting a track by a specified variable

Usage

  ## S4 method for signature 'Move,factor'
burst(x, f, ...)

Arguments

x	a move object
f	a character, factor, or numeric vector that indicates how to burst the coordinates of a Move object. It must be one shorter than the number of locations, because there are always one less segments of a track than coordinates
...	Currently not implemented

Details

The burst function bursts (divides) a track into segments that are specified by the burstIDs (e.g. behavioral annotations). It allows to investigate different parts of a track according to supplied variables like day and night, movement and rest, and so on.

Value

a 'moveBurst' object

Author(s)

Marco Smolla

See Also

burstId, split, plotBursts

Examples

data(leroy)
behav <- c(rep(c("B1","B2","B3","B2"),each=200), rep("B1", 118))
testb <- burst(x=leroy, f=behav)
plot(testb, type="l")

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