The Rraven package is designed to facilitate the exchange of data
between R and Raven sound analysis
software (Cornell Lab of
Ornithology).
Raven provides very powerful tools for
the analysis of (animal) sounds. R can simplify the automatization of
complex routines of analyses. Furthermore, R packages as
warbleR,
seewave and
monitoR (among others)
provide additional methods of analysis, working as a perfect complement
for those found in Raven. Hence,
bridging these applications can largely expand the bioacoustician’s
toolkit.
Currently, most analyses in Raven
cannot be run in the background from a command terminal. Thus, most
Rraven functions are design to simplify the exchange of data between
the two programs.
Install/load the package from CRAN as follows:
# From CRAN
install.packages("Rraven")
#load package
library(Rraven)To install the latest developmental version from github you will need the R package remotes:
# From github
remotes::install_github("maRce10/Rraven")
#load package
library(Rraven)The package vignette provides detailed examples for each function in
Rraven, including both the R code as well as the additional steps in
Raven required to fully accomplished
the analyses. You can pull it up as follows:
vignette("Rraven")The animations explaining additional steps in Raven are shown in more detail on the github version of this vignette, which can be downloaded as follows (saves the file “Rraven.github.html” in your current working directory):
download.file(url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maRce10/Rraven/master/gifs/Rraven.hitgub.html",
destfile = "Rraven.hitgub.html")The downloaded file can be opened by any internet browser.
Please cite Rraven as follows:
Araya-Salas. (2020), Rraven: connecting R and Raven bioacoustic software. R package version 1.0.9.