tagtools

0.3.0

Work with Data from High-Resolution Biologging Tags

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3.1Kdownloads / year

23.7%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Stacy DeRuiterFirst published 2023-07-183 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

High-resolution movement-sensor tags typically include accelerometers to measure body posture and sudden movements or changes in speed, magnetometers to measure direction of travel, and pressure sensors to measure dive depth in aquatic or marine animals. The sensors in these tags usually sample many times per second. Some tags include sensors for speed, turning rate (gyroscopes), and sound. This package provides software tools to facilitate calibration, processing, and analysis of such data. Tools are provided for: data import/export; calibration (from raw data to calibrated data in scientific units); visualization (for example, multi-panel time-series plots); data processing (such as event detection, calculation of derived metrics like jerk and dynamic acceleration, dive detection, and dive parameter calculation); and statistical analysis (for example, track reconstruction, a rotation test, and Mahalanobis distance analysis).

Install

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

install.packages("tagtools", 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("animaltags/tagtools_r")

Development version from animaltags/tagtools_r. 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-tagtools

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

# 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-tagtools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ animaltags/tagtools_r

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193 commits · Last activity 2026-07-14 · 0% stars, 30d

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cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (17)

CircStats cowplot dplyr ggplot2graphicsgsignal lubridate ncdf4 plotly pracma Rcpp readrstatsstringrutilszoo zoom

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Rcpp RcppArmadillo

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People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Stacy DeRuiter

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (9)

Stacy DeRuiter

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Samuel Fynewever

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Mark Johnson

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Tiago Marques

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Ye Joo McNamara-Oh

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(Oghenesuvwe) Su Ogedegbe

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David Sweeney

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(Oghenkevwe) Racheal Tejevbo

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Yuqian Wang

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Stacy DeRuiter

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Mark Johnson

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Package Timeline

3 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0Latest
2025-12-18 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.0
2024-06-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.0
2023-07-18
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-07-18
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 947 KB
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