plotConcTimeSmooth {EGRET}

Plot up to three curves representing the concentration versus time relationship, each curve representing a different flow.

Description

These plots show how the concentration-time relationship is changing over flow.

This plot can also help identify situations where the windowY may be too small. If there are substantial oscillations of some of the curves, then the windowY should be increased. Alternatively, windowY may be too large. This can be seen when the windowY is reduced (say to 4.0). A good choice of windowY would be a value just great enough to damp out oscillations in the curves.

Although there are a lot of optional arguments to this function, most are set to a logical default.

Data come from named list, which contains a Sample dataframe with the sample data and an INFO dataframe with metadata.

Usage

plotConcTimeSmooth(eList, q1, q2, q3, centerDate, yearStart, yearEnd,
  qUnit = 2, legendLeft = 0, legendTop = 0, concMax = NA,
  concMin = NA, bw = FALSE, printTitle = TRUE, colors = c("black",
  "red", "green"), printValues = FALSE, tinyPlot = FALSE, concLab = 1,
  monthLab = 1, minNumObs = 100, minNumUncen = 50, windowY = 10,
  windowQ = 2, windowS = 0.5, cex.main = 1.1, lwd = 2,
  printLegend = TRUE, cex.legend = 1.2, cex = 0.8, cex.axis = 1.1,
  customPar = FALSE, lineVal = c(1, 1, 1), logScale = FALSE,
  edgeAdjust = TRUE, usgsStyle = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

eList

named list with at least the Sample and INFO dataframes

q1

numeric This is the discharge value for the first curve to be shown on the plot. It is expressed in units specified by qUnit.

q2

numeric This is the discharge value for the second curve to be shown on the plot. It is expressed in units specified by qUnit. If you don't want a second curve then the argument must be q2=NA

q3

numeric This is the discharge value for the third curve to be shown on the plot. It is expressed in units specified by qUnit. If you don't want a third curve then the argument must be q3=NA

centerDate

character This is the time of year to be used as the center date for the smoothing. It is expressed as a month and day and must be in the form "mm-dd"

yearStart

numeric This is the starting year for the graph. The first value plotted for each curve will be at the first instance of centerDate in the year designated by yearStart.

yearEnd

numeric This is the end of the sequence of values plotted on the graph.The last value will be the last instance of centerDate prior to the start of yearEnd. (Note, the number of values plotted on each curve will be yearEnd-yearStart.)

qUnit

object of qUnit class. printqUnitCheatSheet, or numeric represented the short code, or character representing the descriptive name.

legendLeft

numeric which represents the left edge of the legend in the units of the plot.

legendTop

numeric which represents the top edge of the legend in the units of the plot.

concMax

numeric value for upper limit on concentration shown on the graph, default = NA (which causes the upper limit to be set automatically, based on the data)

concMin

numeric value for lower limit on concentration shown on the vertical log graph, default is NA (which causes the lower limit to be set automatically, based on the data). This value is ignored for linear scales, using 0 as the minimum value for the concentration axis.

bw

logical if TRUE graph is produced in black and white, default is FALSE (which means it will use color)

printTitle

logical variable if TRUE title is printed, if FALSE not printed

colors

color vector of lines on plot, see ?par 'Color Specification'. Defaults to c("black","red","green")

printValues

logical variable if TRUE the results shown on the graph are printed to the console and returned in a dataframe (this can be useful for quantifying the changes seen visually in the graph), default is FALSE (not printed)

tinyPlot

logical variable, if TRUE plot is designed to be plotted small, as a part of a multipart figure, default is FALSE

concLab

object of concUnit class, or numeric represented the short code, or character representing the descriptive name. By default, this argument sets concentration labels to use either Concentration or Conc (for tiny plots). Units are taken from the eList$INFO$param.units. To use any other words than "Concentration" see vignette(topic = "units", package = "EGRET").

monthLab

object of monthLabel class, or numeric represented the short code, or character representing the descriptive name.

minNumObs

numeric specifying the miniumum number of observations required to run the weighted regression, default is 100

minNumUncen

numeric specifying the minimum number of uncensored observations to run the weighted regression, default is 50

windowY

numeric specifying the half-window width in the time dimension, in units of years, default is 10

windowQ

numeric specifying the half-window width in the discharge dimension, units are natural log units, default is 2

windowS

numeric specifying the half-window with in the seasonal dimension, in units of years, default is 0.5

cex.main

magnification to be used for main titles relative to the current setting of cex

lwd

line width, a positive number, defaulting to 2

printLegend

logical if TRUE, legend is included

cex.legend

number magnification of legend

cex

numerical value giving the amount by which plotting symbols should be magnified

cex.axis

magnification to be used for axis annotation relative to the current setting of cex

customPar

logical defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, par() should be set by user before calling this function (for example, adjusting margins with par(mar=c(5,5,5,5))). If customPar FALSE, EGRET chooses the best margins depending on tinyPlot.

lineVal

vector of line types. Defaults to c(1,1,1) which is a solid line for each line. Options: 0=blank, 1=solid (default), 2=dashed, 3=dotted, 4=dotdash, 5=longdash, 6=twodash

logScale

logical whether or not to use a log scale in the y axis.

edgeAdjust

logical specifying whether to use the modified method for calculating the windows at the edge of the record. The modified method tends to reduce curvature near the start and end of record. Default is TRUE.

usgsStyle

logical option to use USGS style guidelines. Setting this option to TRUE does NOT guarantee USGS compliance. It will only change automatically generated labels

...

arbitrary functions sent to the generic plotting function. See ?par for details on possible parameters

See Also

genericEGRETDotPlot, runSurvReg

Examples

q1 <- 1
q2 <- 10
q3 <- 100
centerDate <- "07-01"
yearStart <- 1990
yearEnd <- 2010
eList <- Choptank_eList
plotConcTimeSmooth(eList, q1, q2,q3, centerDate, 
                   yearStart, yearEnd, legendLeft = 1997, 
                   legendTop = 0.44, cex.legend = 0.9)
plotConcTimeSmooth(eList, q1, q2,q3, centerDate, yearStart, 
                   yearEnd, logScale = TRUE, legendLeft = 1994, 
                   legendTop = 0.4, cex.legend = 0.9)