Tag manufacturers, models and sensors to support

[damianooldoni]

Look-up table with the tags we will support:

manufacturer	model	sensors
cefas technology	G5dst	one or more of: temperature, pressure, acceleration
cefas technology	G5pdst	one or more of: temperature, pressure, acceleration
star-oddi	micro-td	one or more of: temperature, pressure, acceleration

[PieterjanVerhelst]

Another popular brand is Lotek, which has a number of archival tag models with temperature, pressure and light sensors (https://www.lotek.com/products/lat1000-series/ & https://www.lotek.com/products/lat2000-series/). I ask them for sample datasets.

[PieterjanVerhelst]

Is there a location where I can dump a few example files? Preferably per manufacturer and model?

[PieterjanVerhelst]

@damianooldoni just a reminder about where I can put example datasets of archival tags from different brands and different models.

[damianooldoni]

Hi @PieterjanVerhelst! sorry the delay. You can put them in inst/extdata. Create the folders if they don't exist.

From https://r-pkgs.org/data.html#sec-data-extdata:

If you want to show examples of loading/parsing raw data, put the original files in inst/extdata/

Choose as small files if you can.

[PieterjanVerhelst]

Perfect, thanks! I added some example files and used the following folder structure in that inst/extdata. The first level are the different brands/manufacturers, followed by the tag models. If relevant, I added another folder-level with files containing different sensors or a different combination of sensors.

• cefas_technology
  • G5dst
    • temperature_pressure
  • G5pdst
    • acceleration
    • temperature_pressure (with different firmware versions as shown in #3 )
• lotek
• star_oddi
  • heartrate
  • micro_td

In the time to come, I will add more example files. For instance, this year we will be using the micro_td from star_oddi so I will have a few example datasets coming up. Note that the lotek folder is still empty, but they will provide example datasets in the coming two weeks.

[PieterjanVerhelst]

I just added two more archival dataset examples of the brand star_oddi, tag type micro_td (= small archival tag with temperature and depth/pressure sensors).

[PieterjanVerhelst]

@damianooldoni here are two example datasets for the brand 'Lotek'. The files were too large to sync or send over email, hence the wetransfer links. Each dataset involves a specific model of a Lotek archival tag:

• https://we.tl/t-aXn0av9zro: model LAT2000
• https://we.tl/t-Xmc9OSsgeZ: model LAT1000

Hence, I suggest the following folder structure for Lotek:

• lotek
  • LAT1000
  • LAT2000

[damianooldoni]

I downloaded the data, thanks. Still, it would be nice if you create a small version of these two datasets so that they can be placed in the repo. I mean, we just need one or two days of data so that we have a valid daylog block as well.

[PieterjanVerhelst]

That is true 👍 . I'll make a small version and upload in a few mins!

[PieterjanVerhelst]

short versions of the data added to the repo!

[PieterjanVerhelst]

Brief update: I changed the folder names under lotek brand to the model types (i.e. lat1810 and lat2310) instead of model series (i.e. lat1000 and lat2000).