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getMovebankAnimals: Animals, tags and IDs in a Movebank study

Description

This function returns information of the animals, their tags and IDs from a Movebank study.

Usage

getMovebankAnimals(study, login)

Value

'data.frame'

Arguments

study

character or numeric. Character: full name of the study, as stored on Movebank. Numeric: Movebank ID of the study which can be obtained on the Study Details page on Movebank or with getMovebankID.

login

a MovebankLogin object, if empty you'll be asked to enter your username and password

Author

Marco Smolla & Anne Scharf

Details

getMovebankAnimals belongs to the Movebank browsing functions and returns a data.frame from the requested study that includes among others the individual_id, tag_id, deployment_id, sensor_type_id which are the internal ids of Movebank, the tag_local_identifier, local_identifier which are the ids uploaded to Movebank by the user and other information if available as e.g. death_comments, sex, individual_taxon_canonical_name, etc.

See Also

movebankLogin, getMovebankReferenceTable

Examples

Run this code
if (FALSE) {

# obtain a login
login<-movebankLogin()
getMovebankAnimals(study=2950149, login=login)
}

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