Prepare Lunar Data for the Portalcasting Repository

Get time information (calendar dates, census periods, and newmoon numbers) associated with trapping events (achieved and missed) based on a lunar survey schedule.
add_forecast_newmoons adds future newmoon dates to the newmoon table from prepare_newmoons associated with the forecast.

Usage

prepare_newmoons(main = ".")

add_forecast_newmoons(main = ".", newmoons = NULL)

Arguments

main

character value of the name of the main component of the directory tree.

newmoons

data.frame of newmoon data.

Value

Some version of a newmoons data.frame.

prepare_newmoons: fully appended and formatted data.frame (also saved out if settings$save = TRUE).

add_forecast_newmoons: fully appended and formatted data.frame.

See also

Content preparation functions: directory filling, prepare covariates, prepare metadata, prepare models, prepare rodents

Examples

if (FALSE) {
   main1 <- file.path(tempdir(), "newmoons")

   create_dir(main = main1)
   fill_resources(main = main1)
   fill_forecasts(main = main1)
   fill_fits(main = main1)
   fill_models(main = main1)

   prepare_newmoons(main = main1)

   unlink(main1, recursive = TRUE)
}