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<b>T-LoCoH News: Summer 2014</b><br>
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</u><b>T-LoCoH Update </b><b>Now Available - better support for
raster images</b><b><br>
</b>A new version of the T-LoCoH package for R is now available. The
main feature improvements in this update are better support for
displaying raster images in plots and animations. Changes include:<br>
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<i>Changes in Version 1.17 (2014-08-17)</i><br>
<ul>
<li><tt>lxy.exp.shp()</tt> added (exports a LocoH-xy object to
shapefile)</li>
<li>Added support for plotting single-band GeoTiff images in the
background of LoCoH-xy and LoCoH-hullset objects (including new
argument for specifying the display colors, <tt>tiff.col</tt>)</li>
<li><tt>lxy.exp.mov()</tt>: added support for displaying
background raster images in an animation of a LoCoH-xy object;
new argument for date label fill color; support for mp4 encoding
(h.264); and coloring the active point by the hour-of-day</li>
<li><tt>lxy.exp.csv()</tt>: Added <i>dir </i>argument</li>
<li><tt>readpartgdal</tt>: Added a check for the area of overlap
and number of bands in a raster</li>
<li>Corrected default title for plots of time-use isopleths</li>
<li>Package <i>rgdal </i>moved from 'Imports' to 'Suggests' to
simplify installation</li>
<li>New sections & updates to the tutorial</li>
<li>Cleaned up code and numerous other minor changes</li>
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To update your copy of the package, please run:<br>
<pre>update.packages(oldPkgs="tlocoh", repos=<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://R-Forge.R-project.org">"http://R-Forge.R-project.org"</a>)
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<b>Workshop on T-LoCoH October 25</b><b><br>
</b><br>
There will be a half-day workshop on T-LoCoH on Saturday October 25,
2014, at The Wildlife Society annual meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. For
details and to register, please visit <a
href="http://wildlifesociety.org/">http://wildlifesociety.org/</a><br>
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<b>Newsletter Article</b><b><br>
</b><br>
The <a
href="http://tlocoh.r-forge.r-project.org/tws-setwg_newsletter_s14.pdf">spring
2014</a> issue of <em>Remotely Wild</em>, the newsletter of The
Wildlife Society <a href="http://www.wildlife.org/spatialecology/">Spatial
Ecology and Telemetry Working Group</a>, includes an overview
article on T-LoCoH. Please check it out and tell your friends.<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>Coming Soon</b><b>...<br>
</b><br>
More documentation on workflows, parameter selection tools, and HTML
reports<br>
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<i>T-LoCoH: A home range estimation and spatio-temporal analysis
method</i><i> for location data</i><br>
R package, documentation, email list: <a
href="http://tlocoh.r-forge.r-project.org/">http://tlocoh.r-forge.r-project.org</a><br>
Please send questions and comments to <a
href="mailto:tlocoh@gmail.com">tlocoh@gmail.com</a> <br>
Lyons, A., Turner, W.C., and WM Getz. 2013. <em>Home range plus: A
space-time characterization of movement over real landscapes. <a
href="http://www.movementecologyjournal.com/content/1/1/2">BMC
Movement Ecology 1:2</a>, <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2051-3933-1-2">doi:10.1186/2051-3933-1-2</a><br>
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