createEnvDataFrame: Convert data frame to Movebank Env-Data request file

In ABoVE-AotM/above: Functions and methods for the Animals on the Move project of the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE - NASA).

Description

Takes a data frame of latitudes, longitudes and times and generates the strictly formatted data frame needed to upload to Env-Data to obtain covariates for movebank.

Usage

createEnvDataFrame(lats, lons, times, savefile = TRUE, fileout = NULL)

Arguments

savefile	whether to save a csv file
fileout	name of csv file to save
lats, lons	vectors of latitude and longitude
times	vectors of POSIX times

Value

Either nothing (if csv file saved) or the character string data frame with correct formatting.

See Also

createEnvDataGrid, createEnvDataRequest, uploadEnvDataRequest

Examples

 lats <- seq(38.8, 39.0, length = 40)
 lons <- seq(-77.12, -76.91, length = 40) 
 times <- seq(ymd("2010-12-31"), ymd("2011-12-31"), length = 40)
 example <- createEnvDataFrame(lats, lons, times, savefile = FALSE)
 head(example)

ABoVE-AotM/above documentation built on May 28, 2020, 6:08 a.m.