move (version 4.2.5)

burst: Bursting a track

Description

Bursting a track by a specified variable

Usage

# S4 method for Move,factor
burst(x, f, ...)

Value

a 'moveBurst' object

Arguments

x

a move object

f

a character, factor, or numeric vector that indicates how to burst the coordinates of a Move object. It must be one shorter than the number of locations, because there are always one less segments of a track than coordinates

...

Currently not implemented

Author

Marco Smolla

Details

The burst function bursts (divides) a track into segments that are specified by the burstIDs (e.g. behavioral annotations). It allows to investigate different parts of a track according to supplied variables like day and night, movement and rest, and so on.

See Also

burstId, split, plotBursts

Examples

data(leroy)
behav <- c(rep(c("B1","B2","B3","B2"),each=200), rep("B1", 118))
testb <- burst(x=leroy, f=behav)
plot(testb, type="l")