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ctmm-initiative / ctmmweb

Web app for analyzing animal tracking data, built upon ctmm R package
http://biology.umd.edu/movement.html
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Loading data from Movebank #66

Closed chfleming closed 6 years ago

chfleming commented 6 years ago

This is forwarded from an email:

Just a quick question: is there a known error with ctmm being able to load data from movebank right now? I have tried running the web app and also locally from R studio, and after logging no data from movebank is being displayed. Just last week or so I was able to access the Harlequin frog data on movebank. I attached a couple images for reference.

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xhdong-umd commented 6 years ago

The bug was caused by a change in column types.

Previously i_can_see_data is read as character, now it's read as logical. It could be newer version of data.table changed behavior, or movebank data is more consistent so there is no need to bump column type from logical to character(so it can cover the more irregular input like "", "none" etc).

I have fixed the problem, updated the package and hosted app. I also specified the column type to avoid similar problem appear again in future.

xhdong-umd commented 6 years ago

It's reported the direct import of movebank data has some problem too. I found the previous update of importing multiple files changed a function behavior, and the direct import need to be updated to be compatible.

It has now been fixed.