Chapter 1 AOS2024 - ‘celltracktech’ Workshop

This RBook goes over the files, functions, and analyses from the 2024 American Ornithological Society (AOS) Workshop in Estes Park, CO on the ‘celltracktech’ R package. This package was developed by Dr. Jessica Gorzo, Dr. Sean Burcher, and Dr. Kristin Paxton.

This document will serve as a tutorial on how Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT) registered users can download their data from our server, analyze the data using multilateration, and visualize the data using the built-in package functions.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to obtain your data. This style is used to increase accessibility for absolute beginners in R, SQL, and data science.

1.1 Additional Libraries Needed (Linux users)

Note If you are using Linux (specifically Ubuntu), you may need to install the following libraries in the teriminal.

1.1.1 Install PostgreSQL libraries

sudo apt install libpq-dev libssl-dev

1.1.2 Installing R Spatial on Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev libtbb-dev