inst/app/help/1_movebank_download.md

In xhdong-umd/ctmmweb: Web App For ctmm Package

Limitations

The Movebank interface in app used Movebank API, which has some limitations compare to the Movebank website: - The studies with data visible returned from API are not as accurate. It's quite possible some studies don't have data to view or download. - The downloaded data only have some core columns, not as complete as the csv downloaded from Movebank website.

Table of all studies

• In all Movebank studies, only a part of them have data visible to your account. Only these studies are listed.
• The columns of deployments, events or individuals are obsolete and only kept for reference, do not rely on them.

Selected study detail

• After you click on a study in the table, the detail of that study will be downloaded and displayed here.
• You can click Download, then scroll to the data preview box for result.
  • Success download will have a notification and have the data previewed.
  • Sometimes the response is a page saying once you agree the license term the data can be downloaded. You can open the study pages by clicking to the button open in Movebank, then download from there.
    • There could be a pop up window asking to agree the license terms. After one time agreement you can download from Movebank or from the app later.
    • It's also possible there is actually no data available for download.

Save and import data

• You can save the downloaded data as csv file, or import it for next step of analysis.
• The data downloaded with Movebank API only have core columns included by default.
• You can use open in Movebank to download from website if you need more attributes or more filter options.

xhdong-umd/ctmmweb documentation built on May 29, 2019, 11:59 a.m.