camtrapR: Camera Trap Data Management and Analysis Framework

Management and analysis of camera trap wildlife data through an integrated workflow. Provides functions for image/video organization and metadata extraction, species/individual identification. Creates detection histories for occupancy and spatial capture-recapture analyses, with support for multi-season studies. Includes tools for fitting community occupancy models in JAGS and NIMBLE, and an interactive dashboard for survey data visualization and analysis. Features visualization of species distributions and activity patterns, plus export capabilities for GIS and reports. Emphasizes automation and reproducibility while maintaining flexibility for different study designs.

Version: 3.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: data.table, dplyr, DT, generics, ggplot2, leaflet, lubridate, methods, secr, sf, shiny, shinyBS, shinydashboard, shinyjs, terra
Suggests: abind, bayesplot, callr, coda, corrplot, elevatr, iNEXT, jsonlite, jsonify, knitr, lattice, magick, mapview, nimble, nimbleEcology, overlap, parallel, patchwork, pbapply, plotly, psych, raster, reshape2, rjags, R.rsp, RSQLite, ritis, rlang, rmarkdown, rstudioapi, scales, shinyWidgets, stringr, tesseract, taxize, testthat, tibble, ubms, units, unmarked, viridisLite, zip
Published: 2025-09-28
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.camtrapR
Author: Juergen Niedballa ORCID iD [aut, cre], Alexandre Courtiol ORCID iD [aut], Rahel Sollmann ORCID iD [aut], John Mathai [ctb], Seth Timothy Wong ORCID iD [ctb], An The Truong Nguyen ORCID iD [ctb], Azlan bin Mohamed ORCID iD [ctb], Andrew Tilker ORCID iD [ctb], Roshan Guharajan ORCID iD [ctb], Ioannis Alexiou ORCID iD [ctb], Andreas Wilting ORCID iD [ctb, ths]
Maintainer: Juergen Niedballa <camtrapr at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/camtrapr
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: https://github.com/jniedballa/camtrapR, https://jniedballa.github.io/camtrapR/, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/camtrapr
NeedsCompilation: no
SystemRequirements: ExifTool (https://exiftool.org/)
Citation: camtrapR citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: camtrapR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: camtrapR.html , camtrapR.pdf
Vignettes: 1. Organising raw camera trap images in camtrapR (source)
2. Species and Individual Identification (source)
3. Data Extraction from Images and videos, creating occupancy & secr input (source)
4. Data exploration and visualisation (source)
5. Multi-species occupancy models (source)

Downloads:

Package source: camtrapR_3.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: camtrapR_2.3.1.zip, r-release: camtrapR_2.3.1.zip, r-oldrel: camtrapR_2.3.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): camtrapR_2.3.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): camtrapR_2.3.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): camtrapR_3.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): camtrapR_3.0.0.tgz
Old sources: camtrapR archive

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