Hello R Help Group: I have been struggling to create an object of class ltraj with the function as.ltraj (adehabitatLT) with my bird data. Regarding my data structure, I have GPS for 10 birds that transmit three times/day, over the course of a year (with missing data). I have a L10.csv file with the following headers: Craneid, Date, Time, Long, Lat, Habitat, ID (for burst).
Step 1: Bring in my data with: �stringsasFactors=FALSE� to convert all variables from Factor (except Lat/Long) to strings. Thanks to David Carlson for that tip! Step 2: Transform my date, time vectors into POSIXct as follows: datetime=as.POSIXct(strptime(paste(L10$Date, L10$Time, sep=" "),format="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S", "America/Chicago")) Thanks to Petr Pikal for that tip! Result: head(datetime)[1] "2011-07-10 17:00:38 CDT" "2011-07-11 00:01:06 CDT"[3] "2011-07-11 08:00:38 CDT" "2011-07-11 17:00:38 CDT"[5] "2011-07-12 00:01:06 CDT" "2011-07-12 08:00:38 CDT" Good so far�. Step 3: Coord=L10[c("Longitude", "Latitude")]> head(Coord) Longitude Latitude1 522598 33602852 522579 33601743 522618 33602744 522656 33601965 522397 33602076 522425 3360285 Good so far�.now comes the tricky part for me. Step 4: Craneid=as.character(L10$Craneid) id=as.character(L10$ID) Step 5: Test=as.ltraj(Coord, datetime, Craneid, burst=id, type=TRUE) Drum Roll Please�. Error in as.ltraj(Coord, datetime, Craneid, burst = id, typeII = TRUE) : non unique dates for a given burst I include my data.frame for your review. head(l10b) Longitude Latitude datetime Craneid id 1 522598 3360285 2011-07-10 17:00:38 L1_10 L1_10 2 522579 3360174 2011-07-11 00:01:06 L1_10 L1_10 3 522618 3360274 2011-07-11 08:00:38 L1_10 L1_10 4 522656 3360196 2011-07-11 17:00:38 L1_10 L1_10 5 522397 3360207 2011-07-12 00:01:06 L1_10 L1_10 6 522425 3360285 2011-07-12 08:00:38 L1_10 L1_10 Longitude Latitude datetime Craneid id 3803 558205 3346410 2011-04-15 17:00:38 L5_10 L5_10 3804 552813 3341251 2011-04-16 08:00:38 L5_10 L5_10 3805 552784 3341373 2011-04-28 08:00:38 L5_10 L5_10 3806 552833 3341262 2011-04-28 17:00:38 L5_10 L5_10 3807 573502 3407390 2011-06-21 17:00:38 L8_10 L8_10 3808 573271 3407499 2011-06-23 08:00:38 L8_10 L8_10 I have checked and re-checked for duplicates and there are no duplicates. However, when ask for duplicates in the datetime I get some �False� but a lot of �True�s� So, I am thinking it has to do with the fact that R is not picking up the individual birds which were monitored over the same time period. How do I structure my data in R to recognize the 10 separate birds with their associated coordinates and time stamps? I would ultimately like to run Bias Bridge Movement on these data but I can�t get from square one! Help! Thanks in advance for any and all assistance you can provide�You all are so valuable. TLP [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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