Generates a dataframe that summarizes the operational days of each camera used in the trip.

make_effortstable(
  data_from_images,
  camera_stations_file_path,
  trip,
  ct_columns = c("trip", "treatment", "site_code", "site", "camera_no",
    "date_time_original", "species", "comments")
)

Arguments

data_from_images

dataframe with the extracted exif data with key attributes, Trip, DateTimeOriginal, Camera.No, Species, Count.

camera_stations_file_path

Path string to the to camera stations csv file that has 5 attributes, SiteCode, lat, long, Site, Camera_Trap, Notes, Easting, Northing.

trip

Character string representing the trip. E.g. Jun.10, Jun.11, Sep.14, Apr.15. The value is the trip for which the camera efforts are to be calculated.

ct_columns

A list of columns to target in the data.frame of extracted camera trap data.

Value

Returns a dataframe compatabile with CTtable of camtrapR package.