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audiomoth.rename

Rename audiomoth files in a readable format

Description

This function renames or copies files created with an Audiomoth device in a readable format including the data and time of recording.

Usage

audiomoth.rename(dir, overwrite = FALSE, tz = "", prefix = "")

Arguments

`dir`	a character vector, path to directory where the .WAV files are stored.
`overwrite`	a logical, to specify if the files should be renamed or copied, if `TRUE` the files are copied, if `FALSE` the files are renamed.
`tz`	a character vector defining a time zone specification. See `as.POSIXct`
`prefix`	a charcter vector for a prefix name to be added at the beginning of the file name.

Details

The format of the new file names follows the format of the SongMeter SM2/SM4 deveices: PREFIX_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.wav.

Value

1 logical vector indicating which operation succeeded for each of the files attempted.

Note

Be careful if you overwrite the files.

Author(s)

Jerome Sueur

Jerome Sueur <sueur@mnhn.fr> [cre, au], Thierry Aubin [au], Caroline Simonis [au], Laurent Lellouch [main ctrb], Ethan C. Brown [ctrb], Marion Depraetere [ctrb], Camille Desjonqueres [ctrb], Francois Fabianek [ctrb], Amandine Gasc [ctrb], Eric Kasten [ctrb], Stefanie LaZerte [ctrb], Jonathan Lees [ctrb], Jean Marchal [ctrb], Andre Mikulec [ctrb], Sandrine Pavoine [ctrb], David Pinaud [ctrb], Alicia Stotz [ctrb], Luis J. Villanueva-Rivera [ctrb], Zev Ross [ctrb], Carl G. Witthoft [ctrb], Hristo Zhivomirov [ctrb].

Initial release

2020-06-28