md_configure: Interactively configure movement design setup

In movedesign: Study Design Toolbox for Movement Ecology Studies

Interactively configure movement design setup

Description

Guides the user to assign each argument required for a movement design workflow, including species label and key simulation settings. Users may choose to set a specific population sample size (number of animals tagged/to be tagged) or optimize the population sample size considering a specific analytical target.

Usage

md_configure(data, models = NULL)

Arguments

data	A named list of telemetry objects (from ctmm::as.telemetry()) to be used as the empirical basis for the simulations. Each telemetry object must contain valid metadata and timestamped locations.
models	(Optional) Named list of fitted ctmm models (from ctmm::ctmm.fit() or ctmm::ctmm.select()). If not supplied, models are fitted automatically.

Details

The argument data is required and must be supplied directly (as a list of telemetry objects, obtained from ctmm::as.telemetry()). The argument models is optional, and if omitted, models will be fitted automatically.

Value

An object of class movedesign_input (and movedesign). This is a structured S3 list containing all validated inputs, model fits, and derived parameters for the study design workflow.

See Also

md_prepare()

Examples

if(interactive()) {
  data(buffalo)
  md_params <- md_configure(data = buffalo)
}

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