unmarked (version 0.11-0)

formatMult: Create unmarkedMultFrame from Long Format Data Frame

Description

This convenience function converts multi-year data in long format to unmarkedMultFrame Object. See Details for more information.

Usage

formatMult(df.in)

Arguments

df.in

a data.frame appropriately formatted (see Details).

Value

Details

df.in is a data frame with columns formatted as follows:

Column 1 = year number Column 2 = site name or number Column 3 = julian date or chronological sample number during year Column 4 = observations (y) Column 5 -- Final Column = covariates

Note that if the data is already in wide format, it may be easier to create an unmarkedMultFrame object directly with a call to unmarkedMultFrame.