read.captures {secr}R Documentation

Read Capture Data From File

Description

Input raw detection (capture) data for spatially explicit capture–recapture.

Usage

read.captures(file, ...)

Arguments

file character string with name of text file
... other arguments to be passed to read.table

Details

This brief function merely calls read.table and is therefore technically redundant. It accepts whatever data are in file. The result is used as input to make.capthist.

Value

A dataframe.

Author(s)

Murray Efford murray.efford@otago.ac.nz

See Also

make.capthist

Examples

## Not run: 
   ## assumes 'capt.txt' in working folder
   temp <- read.captures(file = 'capt.txt', col.names = 
               c('Session','ID','Occasion', 'X', 'Y'))
## End(Not run)
[Package secr version 1.2.11 Index]