momentuHMM

1.5.8

Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Animal Movement Behavior Using Multivariate Hidden Markov Models

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Overview

About

Maintained by Brett McClintockFirst published 2017-06-1619 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Extended tools for analyzing telemetry data using generalized hidden Markov models. Features of momentuHMM (pronounced ``momentum'') include data pre-processing and visualization, fitting HMMs to location and auxiliary biotelemetry or environmental data, biased and correlated random walk movement models, hierarchical HMMs, multiple imputation for incorporating location measurement error and missing data, user-specified design matrices and constraints for covariate modelling of parameters, random effects, decoding of the state process, visualization of fitted models, model checking and selection, and simulation. See McClintock and Michelot (2018) doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12995.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("momentuHMM", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("bmcclintock/momentuHMM")

Development version from bmcclintock/momentuHMM. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-momentuhmm

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-momentuHMM

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-momentuHMM

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 22.0 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 65%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 81%
References docs: 12%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bmcclintock/momentuhmm

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20Releases

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animal-movementhidden-markov-modelhmmr-packagetelemetry-datatime-series-analysis

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

39 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (13)

Rcpp doParallel foreach numDeriv CircStats crawl (>= 2.2.1)mvtnorm spMASSBrobdingnag doRNG rlang raster

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Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (27)

testthat setRNGsplinessplines2 R.rsp conicfit ggplot2 ggmap lubridate dplyr magrittr scatterplot3d BB expm matrixcalc moveHMM extraDistr data.tree geosphere mitools doFuture future carsurvivalprodlim nleqslv qdapRegex

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ggcircular

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Brett McClintock

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Brett McClintock

Author, Maintainer

Theo Michelot

Author

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Roland Langrock

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.0

Toby Patterson

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.0

Eric Rexstad

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-16
Total releases: 19 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 190 KB / 3 files
Download size: 2.3 MB
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