Movebank.org is a new storage warehouse for relocation data from GPS-collared or VHF-collared animals. It provides a storage facility in the cloud that can serve as a backup for your data or a transfer portal to share data among colleagues or interested researchers. Similar to any email account, each user has a Movebank account that has a login and password to gain access to your data. Administration privileges can be given to anyone with an account for viewing and downloading data.
- Exercise 3.1 - Download and extract zip folder into your preferred location
- Set working directory to the extracted folder in R under File - Change dir...
- First we need to load the packages needed for the exercise
library(move)
library(RCurl)
library(circular) - Now open the script "MBvultureCode.R" and run code directly from the script
- Let's aslo go to the Movebank home page and explore what it has to offer
- Login to Movebank
login <- movebankLogin(username="wdwalter", password="xxxxxx") - Access a stored dataset in Movebank of vulture data
getMovebankAnimals(study="Turkey Vulture South Carolina USA",login=login)
#Give the dataset a name while identifying each bird by ID in dataset
turkey <- getMovebankData(study="Turkey Vulture South Carolina USA",
animalName=c("Bird51","Bird52","Bird54","Bird55a","Bird56","Bird59a","Bird60a"),
login=login, moveObject=TRUE)
#Check to see the number of locations for each bird
n.locs(turkey)
#Bird51 Bird52 Bird54 Bird55a Bird56 Bird59a Bird60a
#9655 11456 2378 2228 5876 8311 8594
