Returns information of a Movebank study — getMovebankStudy • move

This function returns information about the requested study as e.g. the authors of the study, licence type, citation and more.

Usage

getMovebankStudy(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

getMovebankStudy belongs to the Movebank browsing functions and returns a data.frame with information about the requested study (e.g.: authors of the study, licence type, citation, etc).

Note

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

Value

'data.frame'

Author

Marco Smolla & Anne Scharf

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# obtain a login
login<-movebankLogin()
getMovebankStudy(study="Coatis on BCI Panama (data from Powell et al. 2017)", login=login)
} # }