process_prism: Process PRISM data

In amadeus: Accessing and Analyzing Large-Scale Environmental Data

Process PRISM data

Description

This function imports and cleans raw PRISM data, returning a single SpatRaster object.

Reads time series or 30-year normal PRISM data.

Usage

process_prism(path = NULL, element = NULL, time = NULL, extent = NULL, ...)

Arguments

path	character giving PRISM data path Both file and directory path are acceptable.
element	character(1). PRISM element name
time	character(1). PRISM time name. Should be character in length of 2, 4, 6, or 8. "annual" is acceptable.
extent	numeric(4) or SpatExtent giving the extent of the raster if NULL (default), the entire raster is loaded
...	Placeholders.

Value

a SpatRaster object with metadata of time and element.

Author(s)

Insang Song

See Also

terra::rast, terra::metags

Examples

## NOTE: Example is wrapped in `\dontrun{}` as function requires a large
##       amount of data which is not included in the package.
## Not run: 
prism <- process_prism(
  path = "./data/PRISM_ppt_stable_4kmM3_202104_nc.nc",
  element = "ppt",
  time = "202104"
)

## End(Not run)

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