| Type: | Package |
| Title: | Portal Project Teaching Database |
| Version: | 1.1.0 |
| Description: | A simplified version of the Portal Project Database designed for teaching. It provides a real world example of life-history, population, and ecological data, with sufficient complexity to teach many aspects of data analysis and management, but with many complexities removed to allow students to focus on the core ideas and skills being taught. The full database (which should be used for research) is available at https://github.com/weecology/PortalData. |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| License: | CC0 |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| LazyData: | true |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.2.3 |
| Suggests: | testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Config/testthat/edition: | 3 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2023-11-22 00:00:01 UTC; ethan |
| Author: | S.K. Morgan Ernest
 [aut],
James H. Brown [aut],
Thomas J. Valone [aut],
Michael J. Culshaw-Maurer
[aut],
Ethan P. White
[aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Ethan P. White <ethan@weecology.org> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2023-11-22 00:30:02 UTC |
ratdat: Portal Project Teaching Database
Description
A simplified version of the Portal Project Database designed for teaching. It provides a real world example of life-history, population, and ecological data, with sufficient complexity to teach many aspects of data analysis and management, but with many complexities removed to allow students to focus on the core ideas and skills being taught. The full database (which should be used for research) is available at https://github.com/weecology/PortalData.
Author(s)
Maintainer: Ethan P. White ethan@weecology.org (ORCID)
Authors:
S.K. Morgan Ernest (ORCID)
James H. Brown jhbrown@unm.edu
Thomas J. Valone thomas.valone@slu.edu
Michael J. Culshaw-Maurer culshawmaurer@arizona.edu (ORCID)
Complete survey data.
Description
Data on individual rodents captured at the Portal Project and the plots they were captured in.
Usage
complete
Format
A data frame with columns:
- record_id
Unique record identifier
- month
Month captured
- day
Day captured
- year
Year captured
- plot_id
Plot individual was captured on
- species_id
Species identifier
- sex
Sex of the individual
- hindfoot_length
Length of a back foot in mm
- weight
Weight of the individual in g' Species data.
- genus
The genus of the species
- species
The latin species name
- taxa
General taxonomic category of the species
- plot_type
Type of experimental manipulation conducted on the plot
Source
Portal Project Teaching Database, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1314459
Complete survey data from 1977 to 1989.
Description
Data on individual rodents captured at the Portal Project and the plots they were captured in. This data.frame is the same as 'complete', but only containing data from 1977 to 1989. This is so that instructors can have learners begin working with a clean, older dataset, and later introduce a messy version of the newer years of data, in whatever format fits their needs.
Usage
complete_old
Format
A data frame with columns:
- record_id
Unique record identifier
- month
Month captured
- day
Day captured
- year
Year captured
- plot_id
Plot individual was captured on
- species_id
Species identifier
- sex
Sex of the individual
- hindfoot_length
Length of a back foot in mm
- weight
Weight of the individual in g' Species data.
- genus
The genus of the species
- species
The latin species name
- taxa
General taxonomic category of the species
- plot_type
Type of experimental manipulation conducted on the plot
Source
Portal Project Teaching Database, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1314459
Plots data.
Description
Data on the plots at the Portal Project
Usage
plots
Format
A data frame with columns:
- plot_id
Numeric identifier for the plot
- plot_type
Type of experimental manipulation conducted on the plot
Source
Portal Project Teaching Database, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1314459
Species data.
Description
Data on species captured at the Portal Project
Usage
species
Format
A data frame with columns:
- species_id
Species identifier
- genus
The genus of the species
- species
The latin species name
- taxa
General taxonomic category of the species
Source
Portal Project Teaching Database, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1314459
Survey data.
Description
Data on individual rodents captured at the Portal Project
Usage
surveys
Format
A data frame with columns:
- record_id
Unique record identifier
- month
Month captured
- day
Day captured
- year
Year captured
- plot_id
Plot individual was captured on
- species_id
Species identifier
- sex
Sex of the individual
- hindfoot_length
Length of a back foot in mm
- weight
Weight of the individual in g' Species data.
Source
Portal Project Teaching Database, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1314459