IsReg {EmiStatR}

Wrapping Function for Function "is.regular" from "zoo" package for "data.frame" objects

Description

"IsReg" is a wrapping Function for Function "is.regular" from "zoo" package. Given a "data.frame" object it is converted into a "xts" object, while the regularity of the object is checked. The first column of the "data.frame" should contain a character string vector to be converted via as.POSIXct accordingly with the date format (format) and time zone (tz).

Usage

IsReg(data, format, tz)

Arguments

data

an object of class data.frame containing in its first column a character string vector to be converted via as.POSIXct into a date vector accordingly with the date format (format) and time zone (tz) defined

format

character string giving a date-time format as used by strptime.

tz

a time zone specification to be used for the conversion, if one is required. System-specific, but "" is the current time zone, and "GMT" is UTC (Universal Time, Coordinated). Invalid values are most commonly treated as UTC, on some platforms with a warning.

Details

"IsReg" calls the as.POSIXct function from base package to convert an object to one of the two classes used to represent date/times (calendar dates plus time to the nearest second). More details can be found in the "is.regular" function of the "zoo" package.

Value

Object of class "list". This object contains 2 elements, the first one contains a character string "_TSregular" if the xts object created is strict regular, or "_TSirregular" if it is strict irregular. More details can be found in the "is.regular" function of the "zoo" package.

Author(s)

J.A. Torres-Matallana

Examples

library(EmiStatR)
data("P1")

class(P1)
head(P1)

ts <- IsReg(data = P1, format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", tz = "UTC")
str(ts)

ts[[1]]

head(ts[[2]]); tail(ts[[2]])

plot(ts[[2]], ylab = "Precipitation [mm]")