agrtools

Description

agrtools is an R package made for provide a collection of tools for working with agricultural data. The package is under development and new functions will be added in the future.

Functions

Example data:

• piscoelqui: hourly weather data from the Pisco Elqui weather station in the Coquimbo region, Chile.

General functions:

• convert_units(): convert units of different variables and units.
• hourly_to_daily(): convert hourly data to daily data based on the suffix of the column names for applying the aggregation function.

Weather data functions:

• cdd(): calculate the cooling degree days.
• hdd(): calculate the heating degree days.
• gdd(): calculate the growing degree days.
• extraterrestrial_radiation(): calculate the extraterrestrial radiation.
• clearsky_radiation(): calculate the clear sky radiation.
• chillinghours(): calculate the chilling hours.
• dailychillinghours(): estimate the chilling hours based on daily data.
• et0pm(): calculate the potential evapotranspiration using the Penman-Monteith method.
• et0h(): calculate the potential evapotranspiration using the Hargreaves method.
• et0hs(): calculate the potential evapotranspiration using the Hargreaves-Samani method.
• et0pan(): calculate the potential evapotranspiration using the Pan evaporation method. It also includes the option to calculate pan coefficient (Kp)

Installation

You can install the development version of agrtools from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("aldotapia/agrtools", build_vignettes = TRUE)

## Examples

see the vignettes for examples of how to use the functions.

browseVignettes("agrtools")