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tidyweather

A tidyverse-style R package for agricultural weather analysis. Effortlessly summarize, and analyze weather data to support crop modeling, and climate-based decision-making in agriculture.

Installation

Currently on Github only. Install with:

remotes::install_github('byzheng/tidyweather')

Configuration

The tidyweather package provides a flexible options system to customize default behaviors for weather analysis. You can configure settings like frost thresholds and other extreme weather parameters.

Setting Options

Use weather_options() to view or modify package settings:

library(tidyweather)

# View all current options
weather_options()

# Set frost threshold to 2°C
weather_options(extreme.frost_threshold = 2)

# View updated options
weather_options()

Available Options

  • require_full_year: Logical indicating whether to require a full year of data for calculations (default: TRUE)
  • extreme.frost_threshold: Temperature threshold (°C) for frost analysis (default: 0)

Reset Options

To restore all options to their defaults:

Data Sources

This package includes example weather data sourced from the SILO database, operated by the Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation.

Weather data © Queensland Government, SILO climate database.
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Source: https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/