intersimR provides tools to detect and quantify local interaction
events between marine animals and vessels using tracking data. The
package implements the simulation-based framework described in A
simulation-based framework to detect marine animal-vessel interactions
using tracking data, allowing users to evaluate attraction and
following behaviour through null-model simulations and event-level
metrics.
The package is designed to support reproducible analysis pipelines, making it easy to apply the framework to new datasets across marine species and vessel types.
You can install the development version of the package from GitHub:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("spatialmarine/intersimR")Once installed, load the package with:
library(intersimR)intersimR includes tools for:
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Extracting local interaction events from animal and vessel tracks
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Generating simulation-based null models
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Computing attraction and following behaviour
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Estimating p-values based on repeated simulations
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Summarising and visualising interaction events
The workflow mirrors the structure of the original methodological paper, with generic functions that can be applied to any time-synchronised animal–vessel tracking dataset.
The full reference documentation and vignettes will be available at:
https://spatialmarine.github.io/intersimR/
Issues, questions, and pull requests are welcome. Please open an issue to report bugs or suggest improvements.
This package is distributed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE
file for details.
If you use intersimR in your research, please cite the methodological
paper associated with this framework once it is published. A CITATION
file will be added when a formal reference is available.