invyrfraction {season}

Inverse Fraction of the Year or Hour

Description

Inverts a fraction of the year or hour to a useful time scale.

Usage

invyrfraction(frac, type = "daily", text = TRUE)

Arguments

frac

a vector of fractions of the year, all between 0 and 1.

type

“daily” for dates, “monthly” for months, “hourly” for hours.

text

add an explanatory text to the returned value (TRUE) or return a number (FALSE).

Details

Returns the day and month (for daily) or fraction of the month (for monthly) given a fraction of the year. Assumes a year length of 365.25 days for daily. When using monthly the 1st of January is 1, the 1st of December is 12, and the 31st of December is 12.9. For hourly it returns the fraction of the 24-hour clock starting from zero (midnight).

Value

daym

date (day and month for daily) or fractional month (for monthly) or fractional of the 24-hour clock (for hourly).

Author(s)

Adrian Barnett [e-mail]

Examples

invyrfraction(c(0, 0.5, 0.99), type='daily')
invyrfraction(c(0, 0.5, 0.99), type='monthly')
invyrfraction(c(0, 0.5, 0.99), type='hourly')