tellme: report how much new data motus has for a tag detection...
In jbrzusto/motusClient: fetch data from the motus data server

"new" means data not already in your local database.

1	tellme(projRecv, new = FALSE, dir = getwd())

`projRecv`	integer scalar project code from motus.org, or character scalar receiver serial number
`new`	logical scalar: is this a new database? Default: FALSE You have to specify `new=TRUE` if you want a new local copy of the database to be created. Otherwise, `tellme()` assumes the database already exists, and will stop with an error if it cannot find it in the current directory. This is mainly to prevent inadvertent downloads of large amounts of data that you already have!
`dir:`	path to the folder where you are storing databases Default: the current directory; i.e. `getwd()`

a named list with these items:

numBatches: number of batches having data for your database
numRuns: number of runs of tags detections with new data
numHits: number of new detections
numGPS: number of new GPS fixes covering the new detections
numBytes: estimated size of download, in bytes. This is an estimate of the uncompressed size, but data are gz-compressed for transfer, so the number of bytes you have to download is typically going to be smaller than this number by a factor of 2 or more.

if you specify new=TRUE and the database does not already exist, it will be created (but empty).

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