Login into Movebank — movebankLogin • move

Creates an object that can be used with all Movebank browsing functions.

Usage

# S4 method for class 'character,character'
movebankLogin(username,password)

Arguments

username: Your Movebank username
password: Your Movebank password

Details

Use this function to login to Movebank. After you logged in, you can use the Movebank browsing functions from the move package.

If the function is left empty, you'll be requested to enter your username and password. This option is useful to keep Movebank login data confidential when R-code is shared.

Value

'MovebankLogin'

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{
## First create the login object 
login <- movebankLogin(username="xxx", password="zzz")
## or
login <- movebankLogin()

## and than use it with Movebank browsing functions, e.g.
getMovebankStudies(login)
} # }