Hi Bert,
Tnx for taking time to reply.
For clarification... the data do EXPLICITLY indicate when each species
is active and when a feeding buzz is recorded.
That is ALL it provides based on acoustic data recorded in the field.
Only when a species is recorded is it identified as active.
How this is accomplished is of no importance to the question I asked.
Note this is Not "individuals" per se. but species as a group.
I appreciate you taking time to reply.
Clearly this is not a simple solution to what I assumed to be a simple
question.
Restated as...
*How best to use R to calculate occurrence of event( (A) over time vs
all events (b...n) over the same time period give the data frame work I
have.*
Cheers,
Bruce
> I will not get into your explanation of details that, like John, I
> find opaque. Please DO read Hadley's manifesto, as it appears that you
> need to organize your data more appropriately.
>
> AFAICS, however, strictly speaking your data cannot answer the
> question you have posed. **Strictly speaking** to know the proportion
> of active time bats spend feeding, **for each bat** you would need to
> know when it is active and when it is feeding during that time. You
> could then summarize this for all bats (e.g. take the average or
> median proportion) in a species or whatever. As you cannot identify
> individual bats in your data, you cannot do this -- i.e. you cannot
> answer your question.
>
> So the question then becomes: precisely **how** exactly do you propose
> using the data you have to determine when a *group* of bats are active
> and when they are feeding? How are the groups explicitly identified
> and how are their times active and feeding determined? In short, you
> need to have information that is something like:
>
> Bat.Group date active.time.start active.time.end
> feeding.time.start feeding.time.end
>
> ( for a given date and bat group, there may be many multiple entries;
> perhaps for a given group, date, and active time start and end,
> several feeding time start/stop entries ( I have no idea how bats
> behave)).
>
> Until you can expicitly explain how your data can generate such
> information, I think it will be difficult/impossible to help you.
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
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