PhysMove: Quantifying Animal Movement and Space-Use Patterns with Statistical Physics
Provides tools to analyse animal movement and space-use patterns from telemetry data using methods derived from statistical physics. Methods span displacement-based approaches, distribution fitting, space-use metrics (including the influence of correlations on space-use), network-based community detection, and measures of entropy and predictability. The package enables characterisation of these patterns across spatial and temporal scales, including variation within and among individuals (inter- and intraspecific analyses). Outputs include interpretable metrics and visualisations to support ecological analysis and the investigation of fundamental movement processes. For applications of these methods in ecological studies see Rodríguez et al. (2017) <doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00165-0> and Sequeira et al. (2018) <doi:10.1073/pnas.1716137115>.
| Version: | 1.2.4 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.4) |
| Imports: | broom (≥ 1.0.5), ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.2), graphics, grDevices, grid, methods, poweRlaw (≥ 1.0.0), RColorBrewer (≥ 1.1-3), rlang (≥ 1.1.1), rootSolve (≥ 1.8.2.3), scales (≥ 1.2.1), sf (≥ 1.0-16), stats, utils |
| Suggests: | emln (≥ 1.0), infomapecology (≥ 2.0.0), kableExtra (≥ 1.3.4), knitr (≥ 1.43), maps (≥ 3.4.2), officedown (≥ 0.3.0), rmarkdown (≥ 2.22), spelling (≥ 2.2.1), testthat (≥ 3.1.9) |
| Published: | 2026-08-04 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.PhysMove (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Hannah J. Calich 
[aut, cre, cph],
Jorge Rodríguez
[aut],
Víctor Eguíluz
[aut],
Ana M. M. Sequeira
[aut] |
| Maintainer: | Hannah J. Calich <hannah.calich at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/HannahCalich/PhysMove/issues |
| License: | GPL (≥ 3) |
| URL: | https://github.com/HannahCalich/PhysMove |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Additional_repositories: | https://HannahCalich.github.io/drat |
| Language: | en-US |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | PhysMove results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | PhysMove.html , PhysMove.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
PhysMove: Introduction (source, R code) PhysMove: Movement Patterns (source, R code) PhysMove: Space-Use Patterns (source, R code) PhysMove: Intraspecific Movements (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | PhysMove_1.2.4.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): PhysMove_1.2.4.tgz |
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