[Basta-users] difficulty with CensusToCaptHist

[Shafkat Khan]

Hello:

I've been trying to use CensusToCaptHist function on a dataset. Upon
converting the detection dataset that I have (with ID and Date (of
detection) as column header, the resulting matrix attributes seemingly new
IDs to the existing record. E.g.

     ID 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
1     1    0    0    1    1    1    0    1    0    1
10    2    0    0    0    0    1    0    1    0    1
100   3    0    0    1    0    0    0    0    0    0
101   4    0    0    1    0    0    0    0    0    0
102   5    0    0    1    0    0    0    0    0    0
103   6    0    0    1    0    0    0    0    0    0
104   7    0    0    1    0    0    0    0    0    0
105   8    0    0    1    0    0    0    0    0    0

Here, the ID I had listed in the census file doesn't match up with the
output matrix IDs. For example, the second record, the ID #10 from the
input file gets relabelled as ID # 2 in the output, which doesn't match the
birth/death file I have with the initial IDs. Subsequently, the Datacheck
results in an error message, which basically says that a bunch of the IDs
have measurements after death or before birth, which I imagine is from
being mismatched with original IDs.

Is there a bug in the program? Or am I missing something? I formatted the
datasets pretty much after the BaSTA users guide/vignette. I'm using the
version 1.9.4 that I downloaded from the website and I'm using Rstudio. I
have checked my data several times so that birthdeath and the
detection/census files agree on dates when a given individual is
alive/detected. Any help is much appreciated!

Shafkat
Shafkat Khan
Ph.D Candidate
Odum School of Ecology
University of Georgia
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