move

4.2.7

Visualizing and Analyzing Animal Track Data

9packages depend

42.5Kdownloads / year

65.6%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Bart KranstauberFirst published 2012-12-1438 releasesCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗

Contains functions to access movement data stored in 'movebank.org' as well as tools to visualize and statistically analyze animal movement data, among others functions to calculate dynamic Brownian Bridge Movement Models. Move helps addressing movement ecology questions.

Install

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

install.packages("move", 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("bartk/move")

Development version from bartk/move. 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-move

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-move

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-move

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

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 16.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.32

65.6%

Coverage · measured lines

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
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NOTE2026-06-07
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OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 78%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 11%

Downloads

42.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,913 · ~116/day · ~3.5K/mo

Releases R versions

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42.5K1 year

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Repository

GitLab ↗ bartk/move

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Repository gitlab.com/bartk/move is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (5)

geospheremethodssp raster R (>= 3.5.0)

Imports (5)

httr memoise terra xml2 Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (17)

adehabitatHR adehabitatLT markdown rmarkdown circular ggmap mapproj testthat knitr ggplot2 leaflet lubridate ctmm amt bcpa EMbC solartime

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

0indirect

moveWindSpeed movegroup track2KBA EMbC ctmm move2 recurse segclust2d trackdf

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 7,747 (51%)Rd 4,369 (29%)C 1,657 (11%)Vignettes 1,171 (8%)C++ 134 (1%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S4 class24S4 generic72S4 method234

Cyclomatic complexity: 3.5 median / 6 max
Test cases: 95 / 0.32 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

66%

Expression

70.0%

Tests / Examples

65.6% / – ex

Functions

28 0 exported

Complexity

3.7 avg / 6 max

Call network

28 nodes / 8 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

28 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
metaDataFromDoi	1	0%
.onAttach	2	40%
trackAzimuth	5	63%
gzAzimuth	6	65%
brownian.motion.variance	6	89%
filterThinFun2	2	100%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
duplicatedDataExample	data.frame	10 × 5	–

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Bart Kranstauber

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Bart Kranstauber

Author, Maintainer

Anne K Scharf

Author · added in 3.0.0

Marco Smolla

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-12-14
Total releases: 38 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 480 KB / 6 files
Download size: 2.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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