read.euring2000 {birdring}

Reads EURING data into R

Description

Reads EURING data (format EURING exchange code 2000) into R and creates a data.frame

Usage

read.euring2000(filename, quote="", ...)

Arguments

filename

character string of the data file obtained from EURING (format: exchange code 2000)

quote

default is to ignore quotemarks as much as possible, see notes.

...

extra arguments to pass to read.table

Value

A data.frame containing the following variables from the EURING 2000 code:

scheme	Factor	ringing scheme (code)
id.method	Factor	identification method
ring	Factor	ring number
ring.verif	character	verification of the metal ring
metal.ring.info	character	metal ring information
marks.info	character	other marks information
spec.byringer	character	species + subsp., mentioned by person
spec.byscheme	character	species + subsp., concluded by scheme
manipulated	character	manipulated
moved	character	moved before the (re)capture/recovery
catching.method	character	catching method
catching.lures	character	catching lures
sex.byringer	character	sex, by the person who handled the bird
sex.byscheme	character	sex, as concluded by scheme
age.byringer	character	age, by the person who handled the bird
age.byscheme	character	age, as concluded by scheme
status	character	status
broodsize	character	broodsize
pullus.age	character	pullus age
pullus.age.acc	character	accuracy of pullus age
day	numeric	day of record, derived from date
month	numeric	month of record, derived from date
year	numeric	year of record, derived from date
date.acc	character	accuracy of date
time	character	time
place.code	character	place code
country	character	country derived from place code
region	character	region (county) derived from place code
lat	numeric	latitude in decimal coordinates
lon	numeric	longitude in decimal coordinates
coord.acc	character	accuracy of coordinates
condition	character	condition
circumstances	character	finding circumstances
circumstances.presumed	character	finding circumstances presumed
euring.codeid	character	EURING-code identifier
distance	numeric	distance to place of ringing (km)
direction	numeric	direction to place of ringing (km)
time.elapsed	numeric	time since ringing (days)

Note

Quotemarks, apostrophes and backticks can cause havoc when reading in files; if things do not work as you expect, check for their presence of these and consider removing!

Author(s)

Fraenzi Korner-Nievergelt

References

Speek et al. 2007: The EURING exchange-code 2000. www.euring.org

Examples

filename <- system.file("extdata", "RBShrike2000.TXT", package = "birdring")
dat <-  read.euring2000(filename)
str(dat)