MoveR: an R package for easy processing and analysis of animal video-tracking data
Quentin PetitjeaniD, Silène LartigueiD, Mélina CointeiD, Nicolas RisiD, Vincent CalcagnoiD
Abstract
Animal movement and behavior are critical to understanding ecological and evolutionary processes. Recent years have witnessed an increase in methodological and technological innovations in video-tracking solutions for phenotyping animal behavior. Although these advances enable the collection of high-resolution data describing the movement of multiple individuals, analyzing and interpreting them remains challenging due to their complexity, heterogeneity, and noisiness. Here, we introduce MoveR, an R package for importing, filtering, visualizing, and analyzing data from common video-tracking solutions. MoveR includes flexible tools for polishing data, removing tracking artifacts, subsetting and plotting individual paths, and computing different movement and behavior metrics. Metadata O_TBL View this table: org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@1f29c17org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@e5d302org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@804997org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@5f7161org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@cb32a_HPS_FORMAT_FIGEXP M_TBL C_TBL
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