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Filter BirdNET output data by species, confidence, date, and time

Source: R/birdnet_filter.R
birdnet_filter.Rd

Applies one or more common filtering operations to a BirdNET output data frame. Supports filtering by species name, confidence threshold (universal or species-specific), year, date range, and hour of day.

Usage

birdnet_filter(
  data,
  species = NULL,
  threshold = NULL,
  year = NULL,
  min_date = NULL,
  max_date = NULL,
  hour = NULL
)

Arguments

data

A data frame containing BirdNET output. Relevant columns (e.g., common name, confidence, datetime) are automatically detected by birdnet_detect_columns.

species

Character vector. One or more common names of species to retain (e.g., c("Swainson's Thrush", "American Robin")).

threshold

Either a single numeric value between 0 and 1 (for a universal threshold), or a data frame with columns common_name and threshold for species-specific thresholds.

year

Integer or vector of integers specifying year(s) to retain (e.g., 2024:2025).

min_date, max_date

Optional. Character strings or Date objects specifying a date range in "YYYY-MM-DD" format. If only one is provided, filtering is open-ended on the other side.

hour

Integer vector between 0 and 23 specifying hours of the day to retain (e.g., 4:7).

Value

A filtered data frame with an attribute "filter_log" containing the applied filters.

Details

This function uses birdnet_detect_columns to automatically identify the relevant columns (e.g., for species names, confidence, datetime) based on common naming patterns.

All applied filter parameters are stored as an attribute called "filter_log" attached to the returned data frame, which can be accessed via attr(x, "filter_log").

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
filtered <- birdnet_filter(
  data = birdnet_combine("path/to/output"),
  species = "Swainson's Thrush",
  threshold = 0.75,
  year = 2025,
  min_date = "2025-06-01",
  hour = 4:8
)
attr(filtered, "filter_log")
} # }