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R: Animals, tags and IDs in a Movebank study

getMovebankAnimals

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Animals, tags and IDs in a Movebank study

Description

Returns the animals, their tags and IDs from a Movebank study

Usage

  getMovebankAnimals(study, login)

Arguments

`study`	a character string (study name) or the numeric study ID as it is stored on Movebank
`login`	an object of the `MovebankLogin-class`, if empty you'll be asked to enter your username or password

Details

getMovebankAnimals belongs to the Movebank browsing functions and returns a data.frame that includes the animalID, animalName, id, sensor_type_id and tag_id from the requested study.

Note

See the 'browseMovebank' vignette (move website download section) for more information about security and how to use Movebank from within R.

Author(s)

Marco Smolla

Examples

## Not run: 
#obtain a login
login<-movebankLogin()
getMovebankAnimals(study=82207, login=login)

## End(Not run)