survey_overviews: Summarize survey data for a multiple dates

View source: R/survey_overviews.R

survey_overviewsR Documentation

Summarize survey data for a multiple dates

Description

A wrapper for survey_overview().

Usage

survey_overviews(
  survey_dates = NULL,
  time_zone = "Canada/Pacific",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

survey_dates

A character vector of survey date, in format "yyyy-mm-dd". If not provided or NULL, the function will process all dates within the data subfolder of your working directory.

time_zone

The time zone to which you wish to force all date-times in the data (the data numbers will not be changed at all, just R's interpretation of the time zone using the lubridate package).

verbose

Boolean: Print updates to Console?

Value

This function will look for survey data within the data subfolder of your working directory and return a list with various summary tables:

  1. scans: A summary table of scans and their duration.

  2. sighting_summary: Summary metrics for each species observed.

  3. sightings: All data for all sightings, with intuitive column names added.

  4. conditions: All data for all condition zones, with intuitive column names added.

  5. comments: All comments.

  6. data: All data, with two fields added: effort (indicating whether each row occurs during systematic effort, with value 1, or off-scan, value 0) and scan_id (with a numeric indicator of which scan of the day the row of day correspnds to; if the row of data occurs outside of a scan, the value with be NA).


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