makeNCRNbirds: makeNCRNBbirds

In NCRN/NCRNbirds: Data analysis and visualization for NPS I&M bird monitoring.

makeNCRNBbirds

Description

makes a new NCRNbirds object from one or more existing objects

Usage

makeNCRNbirds(
  object,
  ParkCode,
  ShortName,
  LongName,
  Network,
  VisitNumber = NA,
  Bands = NA,
  Intervals = NA,
  Species = NA,
  Guilds = NA,
  points = NA
)

Arguments

object	Either an NCRNbirds object or a list of such objects
ParkCode	The parkcode for the new NCRNbirds object
ShortName	The short name for the new NCRNbirds object
LongName	The long name for the new NCRNbirds object
Network	The network code for the new NCRNbirds object
points	An optional charcter vector with point names. When specificied, only data from the given poits will be included in the new NCRNbirds Object.

Details

This function creates new NCRNbirds objects by combining two or more previously existing objects and/or by subsetting exisitng objects. If more than one object is provided then the data for these objects is combined. Providing a points argument will indicate which points are in the new object. The user must indicate the new network code, park code and park names.

The VisitNumber, Bands, Intervals, Species and Guilds arguments are all optional. If they are not specified, and object is a single NCRNbirds object then the contents of these slots will be inherited from the original object. If object is a list of NCRNbirds objects then the default is to use the content of the first object in the list to fill the output object.

Slots

VisitNumber

An optional numeric vector of length 1. The number of visits that is typically made to each point. This serves as the default number of visits for other functions.

Bands

An optional data.frame with metadata for the distance bands used during monitoring. Includes a name, min distance and max distance for each band.

Intervals

An optional data.frame with mmeatdata for the time intervals used during monitroing. Includes a name start time in minutes and end time in minutes for each interval.

NCRN/NCRNbirds documentation built on Feb. 28, 2025, 10:18 p.m.