ARUtools: Management and Processing of Autonomous Recording Unit (ARU) Data

Parse Autonomous Recording Unit (ARU) data and for sub-sampling recordings. Extract Metadata from your recordings, select a subset of recordings for interpretation, and prepare files for processing on the 'WildTrax' <https://wildtrax.ca/> platform. Read and process metadata from recordings collected using the SongMeter and BAR-LT types of ARUs.

Version: 0.7.3
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: dplyr, fs (≥ 1.6.1), glue, here, hms (≥ 1.1.2), lifecycle, lubridate (≥ 1.9.3), lutz, parzer (≥ 0.4.4), purrr, readr, rlang (≥ 0.4), seewave (≥ 2.2.3), sf, spsurvey (≥ 5.0.1), stringr, suncalc (≥ 0.5.0), tidyr, units, withr
Suggests: covr, ggplot2, jsonlite, knitr, parallel, patchwork, readxl (≥ 1.4.2), rmarkdown, rstudioapi, soundecology, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tuneR, vdiffr (≥ 1.0.0)
Published: 2025-07-28
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ARUtools
Author: David Hope ORCID iD [aut, cre], Steffi LaZerte ORCID iD [aut], Government of Canada [cph, fnd]
Maintainer: David Hope <david.hope at ec.gc.ca>
BugReports: https://github.com/ARUtools/ARUtools/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://arutools.github.io/ARUtools/, https://github.com/ARUtools/ARUtools
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: ARUtools citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: ARUtools results

Documentation:

Reference manual: ARUtools.html , ARUtools.pdf
Vignettes: Getting started with ARUtools (source, R code)
Other useful functions (source, R code)
Subsampling recordings (source, R code)
Customizing 'clean_metadata()' (source, R code)
Sampling recordings - Multple Time Periods (source, R code)
Working with spatial data (source, R code)
Dealing with Timezones (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: ARUtools_0.7.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: ARUtools_0.7.3.zip, r-release: ARUtools_0.7.3.zip, r-oldrel: ARUtools_0.7.3.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): ARUtools_0.7.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): ARUtools_0.7.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): ARUtools_0.7.3.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): ARUtools_0.7.3.tgz
Old sources: ARUtools archive

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