Information about Movebank sensors

This function returns the sensor types used in a Movebank study.

Usage

getMovebankSensors(study, login)

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

Details

getMovebankSensors belongs to the Movebank browsing functions and returns the sensor type(s) used for each tag_id within the specified study.

If the study argument is missing, information about all sensor types available on Movebank and the correspondence between sensor_type_id and the sensor name is obtained.

Value

'data.frame'

Note

See the 'browseMovebank' vignette for more information about security and how to use Movebank from within R.

Author

Marco Smolla & Anne Scharf

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{

## obtain a login
login<-movebankLogin()

## obtain sensors types of each tag in the specified study
getMovebankSensors(study=2950149, login=login)

## obtain all sensors available on Movebank
getMovebankSensors(login=login)
} # }