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Create a GeoPressureR tag object from the data collected by a tracking device. The function can read data formatted according to three manufacturers SOI, Migratetech or Lund CAnMove, as well as according to the GeoLocator Data package standard and also accept manual data.frame as input. Pressure data is required for the GeoPressureR workflow but can be allowed to be missing with assert_pressure = FALSE.

Usage

tag_create(
  id,
  manufacturer = NULL,
  crop_start = NULL,
  crop_end = NULL,
  directory = glue::glue("./data/raw-tag/{id}"),
  pressure_file = NULL,
  light_file = NULL,
  acceleration_file = NULL,
  temperature_external_file = NULL,
  temperature_internal_file = NULL,
  magnetic_file = NULL,
  assert_pressure = TRUE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

id

unique identifier of a tag.

manufacturer

One of NULL, "soi", "migratetech", "lund" or "manual"

crop_start

remove all data before this date (POSIXct or character in UTC).

crop_end

remove all data after this date (POSIXct or character in UTC).

directory

path of the directory where the tag files can be read.

pressure_file

name of the file with pressure data. Full pathname or finishing with extensions (e.g., "*.pressure", "*.deg" or "*_press.xlsx").

light_file

name of the file with light data. Full pathname or finishing with extensions (e.g., "*.glf", "*.lux" or "*_acc.xlsx").

acceleration_file

name of the file with acceleration data. Full pathname or finishing with extensions (e.g., "*.acceleration", "*.deg" or "*_acc.xlsx").

temperature_external_file

name of the file with temperature data. Full pathname or finishing with extensions (e.g., "*.temperature", "*.airtemperature" or "*.deg"). External or air temperature is generally for temperature sensor on directed outward from the bird.

temperature_internal_file

name of the file with temperature data . Full pathname or finishing with extensions (e.g., "*.bodytemperature"). Internal or body temperature is generally for temperature sensor on directed inward (between bird and tag).

magnetic_file

name of the file with magnetic/accelerometer data. Full pathname or finishing with extensions (e.g., "*.magnetic").

assert_pressure

logical to check that the return tag has pressure data.

quiet

logical to hide messages about the progress.

Value

a GeoPressureR tag object containing

  • param parameter object (see param_create())

  • pressure data.frame with columns: date and value

  • light (optional) same structure as pressure

  • temperature_external (optional) same structure as pressure

  • temperature_internal (optional) same structure as pressure

  • acceleration (optional) data.frame with columns: date, value, act and pit.

    • value is the activity computed as the sum of the difference in acceleration on the z-axis (i.e. jiggle). In the SOI sensor, it is summarised from 32 measurements at 10Hz

    • pitch is the relative position of the bird’s body relative to the z axis. In the SOI sensor, it is an average over 32 measurements at 10Hz.

  • magnetic (optional) data.frame with columns: date, magnetic_x, magnetic_y, magnetic_z , acceleration_x, acceleration_y and acceleration_z

Details

The current implementation can read files from the following three sources:

  • GeoLocator Data Package (gldp)

    • pressure_file = "pressure.csv"(optional)

    • light_file = "light.csv" (optional)

    • acceleration_file = "acceleration.csv" (optional)

    • temperature_external_file = "temperature.csv" (optional)

    • temperature_external_file = "airtemperature.csv" (optional)

    • magnetic_file = "magnetic.csv" (optional)

  • Swiss Ornithological Institute (soi)

    • pressure_file = "*.pressure"

    • light_file = "*.glf" (optional)

    • acceleration_file = "*.acceleration" (optional)

    • temperature = "*.temperature" (optional)

    • airtemperature = "*.airtemperature" (optional)

    • magnetic = "*.magnetic" (optional)

  • Migrate Technology (migratetech):

    • pressure_file = "*.deg"

    • light_file = "*.lux" (optional)

    • acceleration_file = "*.deg" (optional)

  • Lund CAnMove (lund)

    • pressure_file = "*_press.xlsx"

    • light_file = "*_acc.xlsx" (optional)

    • acceleration_file = "*_acc.xlsx" (optional)

You can also enter the data manually (manufacturer = "manual") by providing the data.frame to pressure_file:

  • pressure_file: data.frame with column date and value.

  • light_file: (optional) data.frame with column date and value.

  • acceleration_file: (optional) data.frame with column date and value.

You can still create a tag without pressure data using assert_pressure = TRUE. This tag won't be able to run the traditional GeoPressureR workflow, but you can still do some analysis.

By default manufacturer = NULL, the manufacturer is determined automatically from the content of the directory. You can also specify manually the file with a full pathname or the file extension using a regex expression (e.g., "*.pressure" matches any file ending with pressure).

Please create an issue on Github if you have data in a format that is not yet supported.

This function can be used to crop the data at specific date, for instance to remove pre-equipment or post-retrieval data.

See also

Examples

withr::with_dir(system.file("extdata", package = "GeoPressureR"), {
  # Read all sensor file
  tag <- tag_create("18LX")

  print(tag)

  # Read only pressure and crop date
  tag <- tag_create("18LX",
    light_file = NULL,
    acceleration_file = NULL,
    crop_start = "2017-08-01",
    crop_end = "2017-08-05"
  )

  print(tag)

  # You can also specify the exact file in case multiple files with the
  # same extension exist in your directory (migratetech data)
  tag <- tag_create("CB621",
    pressure_file = "CB621_BAR.deg",
    light_file = "CB621.lux",
    acceleration_file = NULL
  )

  print(tag)

  # You can specify the data manually with
  pressure <- data.frame(
    date = as.POSIXct(c(
      "2017-06-20 00:00:00 UTC", "2017-06-20 01:00:00 UTC",
      "2017-06-20 02:00:00 UTC", "2017-06-20 03:00:00 UTC"
    ), tz = "UTC"),
    value = c(1000, 1000, 1000, 1000)
  )
  tag_create(id = "xxx", pressure_file = pressure)
})
#>  Read ./data/raw-tag/18LX/18LX_20180725.pressure
#>  Read ./data/raw-tag/18LX/18LX_20180725.glf
#>  Read ./data/raw-tag/18LX/18LX_20180725.acceleration
#>  Read ./data/raw-tag/18LX/18LX_20180725.temperature
#> 
#> ── GeoPressureR `tag` object for 18LX ──────────────────────────────────────────
#> Note: All green texts are fields of `tag` (i.e., `tag$field`).
#> 
#> ── Parameter param 
#> Run `tag$param` to display full table
#> 
#> ── Sensors data 
#> Manufacturer: soi
#> Date range: 2017-07-27 to 2017-08-09 23:30:00
#>  pressure: 672 datapoints
#>  acceleration: 4,032 datapoints
#>  light: 4,032 datapoints
#>  temperature_external: 2,448 datapoints
#> 
#> ── Stationary periods stap 
#>  No stationary periods defined yet. Use `tag_label()`
#>  Read ./data/raw-tag/18LX/18LX_20180725.pressure
#>  Read ./data/raw-tag/18LX/18LX_20180725.glf
#>  Read ./data/raw-tag/18LX/18LX_20180725.acceleration
#>  Read ./data/raw-tag/18LX/18LX_20180725.temperature
#> 
#> ── GeoPressureR `tag` object for 18LX ──────────────────────────────────────────
#> Note: All green texts are fields of `tag` (i.e., `tag$field`).
#> 
#> ── Parameter param 
#> Run `tag$param` to display full table
#> 
#> ── Sensors data 
#> Manufacturer: soi
#> Date range: 2017-08-01 to 2017-08-04 23:30:00
#>  pressure: 192 datapoints
#>  acceleration: 1,152 datapoints
#>  light: 1,152 datapoints
#>  temperature_external: 192 datapoints
#> 
#> ── Stationary periods stap 
#>  No stationary periods defined yet. Use `tag_label()`
#>  Read ./data/raw-tag/CB621/CB621_BAR.deg
#>  Read ./data/raw-tag/CB621/CB621_BAR.deg
#>  Read ./data/raw-tag/CB621/CB621.lux
#> 
#> ── GeoPressureR `tag` object for CB621 ─────────────────────────────────────────
#> Note: All green texts are fields of `tag` (i.e., `tag$field`).
#> 
#> ── Parameter param 
#> Run `tag$param` to display full table
#> 
#> ── Sensors data 
#> Manufacturer: migratetech
#> Date range: 2021-06-15 21:38:35 to 2021-06-16 05:08:35
#>  pressure: 16 datapoints
#>  light: 14 datapoints
#> 
#> ── Stationary periods stap 
#>  No stationary periods defined yet. Use `tag_label()`
#> List of 2
#>  $ param   :List of 3
#>   ..$ id                  : chr "xxx"
#>   ..$ GeoPressureR_version:Classes 'package_version', 'numeric_version'  hidden list of 1
#>   .. ..$ : int [1:3] 3 3 2
#>   ..$ tag_create          :List of 3
#>   .. ..$ pressure_file: chr "manual"
#>   .. ..$ manufacturer : chr "manual"
#>   .. ..$ directory    : 'glue' chr "./data/raw-tag/xxx"
#>   ..- attr(*, "class")= chr "param"
#>  $ pressure:'data.frame':	4 obs. of  2 variables:
#>   ..$ date : POSIXct[1:4], format: "2017-06-20 00:00:00" "2017-06-20 01:00:00" ...
#>   ..$ value: num [1:4] 1000 1000 1000 1000
#>  - attr(*, "class")= chr "tag"