rvn_forcings_read {RavenR}

Read in Raven ForcingFunctions file

Description

rvn_forcings_read is used to read in the ForcingFunctions.csv file produced by the modelling Framework Raven.

Usage

rvn_forcings_read(ff = NA, tzone = "UTC")

Arguments

ff

full file path to the ForcingFunctions.csv file

tzone

string indicating the timezone of the data in ff

Details

Expects a full file path to the ForcingFunctions.csv file, then reads in the file using read.csv. The main advantage of this functon is renaming the columns to nicer names and extracting the units into something much easier to read.

ff is the full file path of the ForcingFunctions.csv file. If the file is located in the current working directory, then simply the name of the file is sufficient.

The timezone is provided by the tzone argument as "UTC" by default, and should be adjusted by the user to the local time zone as needed, based on the model run.

Value

forcings

data frame from the file with standardized names

units

vector corresponding to units of each column

See Also

rvn_hyd_read for reading in the Hydrographs.csv file

Examples

# read in sample forcings data
ff <- system.file("extdata","run1_ForcingFunctions.csv", package="RavenR")
myforcings <- rvn_forcings_read(ff)

# check data (first 5 columns for brevity)
head(myforcings$forcings[,1:5])
summary(myforcings$forcings[,1:5])