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Published September 30, 2024 | Version v2.3-beta

etn: Access Data from the European Tracking Network

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Description

etn is an R package to access data from the European Tracking Network (ETN). With etn you can query metadata (animals, tags, deployments, receivers, projects) and data (acoustic detections, sensor data) from the ETN database and use these in your analyses. Data access requires user credentials and is subject to a data policy.

See the package website for more information.

Notes

Release notes

The etn package can now be used on your computer! It connects to the ETN database with an API provided by the etnservice package. All functions make use of this API by default, which may result in slower response times. To use the previous method of directly connecting to the database (only possible when working on the LifeWatch RStudio Server), set api = false in all functions (#280)

  • The connection argument is no longer used and therefore deprecated. You will be prompted for credentials instead. Use e.g. get_animals(animal_id = 305), not get_animals(con, animal_id = 305) or get_animals(connection = con, animal_id = 305) (#301).
  • connect_to_etn() is no longer necessary and therefore deprecated. All functions will create their own connection when used. If you have no credentials stored in the system environment, the functions will require you to enter them once per session (#303).
  • The deprecated functions get_deployments()get_detections()get_projects()get_receivers()list_network_project_codes() are no longer included.
  • write_dwc() now invisibly returns the transformed data as a list of data frames (rather than a data frame) (#302).

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Related works

Is supplement to
Software: https://github.com/inbo/etn/tree/v2.3-beta (URL)

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders
LifeWatch LifeWatch

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/inbo/etn
Programming language
R
Development Status
Active