Import Wildlife Insights data to camtrapR

This function imports camera trap data from Wildlife Insights into a format compatible with camtrapR. It can read data from a directory containing CSV files, from a ZIP file, or from individual CSV files.

readWildlifeInsights(
  directory = NULL,
  zipfile = NULL,
  deployment_file = NULL,
  image_file = NULL
)

Arguments

directory

character. Path to folder containing CSV files exported from Wildlife Insights.

zipfile

character. Path to a ZIP file exported from Wildlife Insights.

deployment_file

character. Path to the deployments CSV file.

image_file

character. Path to the images CSV file.

Value

A list containing three elements:

• CTtable: The full camera trap table, based on deployments.csv

• CTtable_aggregated: An aggregated version of the camera trap table, with one row per station

• recordTable: The record table, based on images.csv with additional columns from deployments.csv

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Reading from a directory
wi_data <- readWildlifeInsights(directory = "path/to/csv_files")

# Reading from a ZIP file
wi_data <- readWildlifeInsights(zipfile = "path/to/wildlife_insights_export.zip")

# Reading from separate CSV files
wi_data <- readWildlifeInsights(deployment_file = "path/to/deployments.csv",
                                image_file = "path/to/images.csv")
} # }