Motus R Book update and R package website

Dear Motus collaborators,

We have recently revised the Motus R Book and created a website for the motus R package. The chapters formerly found in the Motus R Book are now listed as Articles on the website, and we have updated out-of-date information and added some new material. The website is automatically compiled from the R package and therefore includes function references and updates automatically when the R package is modified. The Motus R Book will remain available as a PDF.

We hope you find this updated material helpful. We welcome contributions and suggestions from the Motus community to both the articles and the motus R package. If you would like to make a contribution or suggestion, please open an issue on GitHub or email us at motus@birdscanada.org. As always, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

The Motus Team

It is no longer the case that R book chapters can be found as Articles on the motus package page. The docs for motus.org page ( Motus Docs ) shows a link to the R book (“Fetch and use data from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System • motus”), but it takes you takes you to a page for the motus R package ( Fetch and use data from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System • motus ) and there are no Articles listed on the website.

Hi Pat, the articles should still be there, linked to in the header. This is the page the link is pointing to. But the link text in the header is extremely difficult to see. You can just barely make them out in the header in my screenshot.

I don’t recall that being the case previously so maybe there was a styling change in an update at some point? @steffilazerte is this something you’re able to update?

The R package documentation is essentially an updated version of the R Book. It was reorganized somewhat, some updates were added, and most importantly it’s now linked directly to the source code so it will update automatically when there are changes to the package.

Thanks @jsrs. I see it now.

Hmm, no that shouldn’t be like that, I’ll fix it!