srvMetadataForTags: get the metadata for some tags

In jbrzusto/motusClient: fetch data from the motus data server

Description

The basic tag and deployment metadata are returned for any deployments the user has project permissions to, or which have made their tag metadata public.

Usage

srvMetadataForTags(motusTagIDs)

Arguments

motusTagIDs

integer vector of motus tag IDs

Value

a list with these items:

• tags; a data.frame with these columns:

  • tagID; integer tag ID

  • projectID; integer motus ID of project that registered the tag

  • mfgID; character manufacturer tag ID

  • type; character "ID" or "BEEPER"

  • codeSet; character e.g. "Lotek3", "Lotek4"

  • manufacturer; character e.g. "Lotek"

  • model; character e.g. "NTQB-3-1"

  • lifeSpan; integer estimated tag lifeSpan, in days

  • nomFreq; numeric nominal frequency of tag, in MHz

  • offsetFreq; numeric estimated offset frequency of tag, in kHz

  • bi; numeric burst interval or period of tag, in seconds

  • pulseLen; numeric length of tag pulses, in ms (not applicable to all tags)

• tagDeps; a list with these columns:

  • tagID; integer motus tagID

  • deployID; integer tag deployment ID (internal to motus)

  • projectID; integer motus ID of project that deployed the tag

  • tsStart; numeric timestamp of start of deployment

  • tsEnd; numeric timestamp of end of deployment

  • deferSec; integer deferred activation period, in seconds (0 for most tags).

  • speciesID; integer motus species ID code

  • markerType; character type of marker on organism; e.g. leg band

  • markerNumber; character details of marker; e.g. leg band code

  • latitude; numeric deployment location, degrees N (negative is S)

  • longitude; numeric deployment location, degrees E (negative is W)

  • elevation; numeric deployment location, metres ASL

  • comments; character possibly JSON-formatted list of additional metadata

• species; a list with these columns:

  • id; integer species ID,

  • english; character; English species name

  • french; character; French species name

  • scientific; character; scientific species name

  • group; character; higher-level taxon

• projs; a list with these columns:

  • id; integer motus project id

  • name; character full name of motus project

  • label; character short label for motus project; e.g. for use in plots

Author(s)

John Brzustowski jbrzusto@REMOVE_THIS_PART_fastmail.fm

jbrzusto/motusClient documentation built on May 30, 2019, 4:33 p.m.