Bioacoustic Analysis and Publication Tools
Overview
Provides tools for manipulating sound files for bioacoustic analysis, and preparing analyses these for publication. The package validates that values are physically possible wherever feasible.
Fixes
- tests of ab_diel_traits() no longer fail when audioblast is unavailable.
- times of day used in tests are taken from suncalc rather than hard-coded, so they no longer depend on the version of suncalc installed.
- require suncalc (>= 0.5.2), which calculates times of day in UTC rather than the timezone of the machine running R.
- declare the dependency on R (>= 4.1.0) used by an example for soundSpeed().
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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
Base package in Suggests/Enhances imported in NAMESPACE: ‘parallel’
r-devel-windows-x86_64
Base package in Suggests/Enhances imported in NAMESPACE: 'parallel'
- NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
- NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-12
- OK7 OK2026-08-22
- ERROR2 OK, 9 NOTE, 3 ERROR2026-03-10
Documentation
The repository also keeps web-only articles.
- Help pages
- 119
- Examples that run
- 47%24 run in a plain check · 27 never run
- Exported functions with examples
- 50%
- Documented parameters
- 99%
- Return-value docs
- 64%
- Help pages citing references
- 4% with a bibliography file
- SonicScrewdriveR HTML
- audioblast HTML
- Managing audio in R HTML
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pkgdown site last built 2024-05-11, before release 0.0.7.1 (2026-08-21)
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Dependencies
Installing sonicscrewdriver adds 33 packages (17 with compiled code, 39 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.
CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.
- suncalcfix by Oct 26
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- unarchivedReturned to CRAN2026-08-21
- 0.0.7.1Latest
- archivedRemoved from CRAN2026-06-11email to the maintainer is undeliverable
- RR 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
- RR 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
- 0.0.7
- RR 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
- 0.0.62024-03-01 · diff ↗
- 0.0.52024-02-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 8 exports
P_r, ab_annotations, audiomoth_config, audiomoth_wave, radar.range, soundSpeedMedium, soundSpeed_cramer1993, windowing.functionsadded 49 exports
ab_diel_traits, addProcess, allChannels, annotation, audioblast, audioblastDownload, audiomothConfig, audiomothWave, bandpass, birdNetAnalyse, birdNetInstall, channels_se, circularise, concat, convert2degrees, convert2radians, corWaveMC, dielFraction, dielHistogram, dielLabels, dielPlot, dielPositions, dielRings, dolbear, emptyDiel, emptyYearly, filterWave, generateTimeMask, generateTimeShift, humanBytes and 19 more - RR 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
- RR 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
- RR 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
- 0.0.42021-05-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
ab_seqss_nearestStart, audiomoth_config, audiomoth_wave, dayPhase, daysPhases, readAudio, typicalVolume, upsample - 0.0.32020-11-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 16 exports
P_r, ab_annotations, audio_filesize, convert2bytes, convert2dyne_cm2, convert2seconds, jitter, naturalFrequency, radar.range, referenceIntensity, referencePressure, resonantFrequency, shimmer, sweptsine, windowing.functions, zerocross - RR 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
- 0.0.12019-11-19
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- RR 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
Package metadata
- First published
- 2019-11-19
- Total releases
- 7 / 7 yrs
- License
- GPL-3 OSI
- Minimum R
- ≥ 4.1.0
- Bundled data
- 0.4 KB / 2 files
- Download size
- 1.8 MB
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