Formatting data for ctmm package

[Kim Lewandowski]

Hi all,

I am quite new to RStudio and was wondering if anyone could explain to me how to format my data correctly to run the ctmm package

Thanks

Kim

[Christen Fleming]

Hi Kim,

You want to stick to Movebank format: https://ctmm-initiative.github.io/ctmm/reference/as.telemetry.html

which you will have if you store your data on Movebank.

Best,

Chris

[Kim Lewandowski]

Thanks Chris,

I am using the move format however, I am learning from the buffalo (Cilla) example in https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ctmm/ctmm.pdf in which the data is built into the package. When I look at the data in RStudio for this example it has 6 columns. 

1) timestamp

2) longitude

3) latitude

4) t

5) x

6) y

I can't seem to find anywhere that explains what t, x and y are and how to get my data into that format

Thanks 

Kim

[Christen Fleming]

Hi Kim,

You are looking at data that are already imported in to ctmm.

move package format and Movebank format are not the same, necessarily. A Movebank format CSV file should import into ctmm without issue, via

DATA <- as.telemetry(MOVEBANK)

where MOVEBANK is either the filename string or an imported data.frame.

move package objects will generally import the same way, but the move format is very permissive and can be something other than Movebank format.

In any case, you want to use as.telemetry() to produce a telemetry object for ctmm and not try to recreate that by hand. The minimal columns you need for that are listed in https://ctmm-initiative.github.io/ctmm/reference/as.telemetry.html

Best,

Chris

[Kim Lewandowski]

Thanks Chris,

I have made send of this

Kim