read.CowLog {Animal}R Documentation

Read CowLog datafiles

Description

Read in CowLog datafiles. The user can specify the start time of the observation in order to convert observation time to a date format (POSIXct)

Usage

read.CowLog(file, start.time = NULL, delete.duplicates = TRUE)

Arguments

file A CowLog data file
start.time The start time of the observation in "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" format. (see strptime).
delete.duplicates Delete duplicate (double state errors) observations, T or F

Value

A data frame with the elements:

time Time stamp for the code
behavior Behavior for the corresponding time

Author(s)

Matti Pastell <matti.pastell@helsinki.fi>

References

Hanninen, L. & Pastell, M. CowLog: Open source software for coding behaviors from digital video. Behavior Research Methods. 41(2), 472-476.

http://www.mm.helsinki.fi/~mpastell/CowLog

See Also

cowAnalyze, label.data


[Package Animal version 1.02 Index]