Bursting a track

Bursting a track by a specified variable

Usage

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

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

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.

Value

a 'moveBurst' object

Author

Marco Smolla

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")