formatWideLong: Convert between wide and long data formats.

In rbchan/unmarked: Models for Data from Unmarked Animals

Convert between wide and long data formats.

Description

Convert a data.frame between wide and long formats.

Usage

formatWide(dfin, sep = ".", obsToY, type, ...)
formatLong(dfin, species = NULL, type, ...)

Arguments

dfin	A data.frame to be reformatted.
sep	A seperator of column names in wide format.
obsToY	Optional matrix specifying relationship between covariate column structure and response matrix structure.
type	Type of unmarkedFrame to create?
species	Character name of species response column
...	Further arguments to the unmarkedFrame* constructor functions

Details

Note that not all possible unmarkedFrame* classes have been tested with these functions. Multinomial data sets (e.g., removal, double-observer, capture-recapture) are almost certainly easier to enter directly to the constructor function and are not supported by formatLong or formatWide.

In order for these functions to work, the columns of dfin need to be in the correct order. formatLong requires that the columns are in the following scheme:

1. site name or number.

2. date or observation number.

3. response variable (detections, counts, etc).

4. The remaining columns are observation-level covariates.

formatWide requires particular names for the columns. The column order for formatWide is

1. (optional) site name, named “site”.

2. response, named “y.1”, “y.2”, ..., “y.J”.

3. columns of site-level covariates, each with a relevant name per column.

4. groups of columns of observation-level covariates, each group having the name form “someObsCov.1”, “someObsCov.2”, ..., “someObsCov.J”.

Value

A data.frame

See Also

csvToUMF

rbchan/unmarked documentation built on Sept. 17, 2024, 7:51 p.m.