gridArithmetics: Basic arithmetic operations between grids and numbers

In SantanderMetGroup/transformeR: A climate4R package for general climate data manipulation and transformation

Basic arithmetic operations between grids and numbers

Description

Perform basic arithmetic operations between two or more grids (or factors).

Usage

gridArithmetics(..., operator = "*", template = NULL)

Arguments

...	Input grids or factors (numbers). The first element must be a grid, the rest could be either grids or numbers.
operator	Character string of arithmetic simbols ("+", "-", "/", "*"). The length must be 1 (the same operator is used for all elements in ...) or length(...) - 1 (See Details).
template	grid from which the structure (dates, variable name, etc..) is kept for the output data (Default is the first grid in ...).

Details

Lets imagine that elements in ... are A, B and C, where A is a grid and B and C are either grids or numbers. If operator is, for example, "+" (or c("+", "+")), then the mathematical expression evaluated by gridArithmetics is: A + B + C. If operator is, for example, c("+", "/"), then the expression is (A + B)/C. If we would like to evaluate an expression such as A/(B + C), gridArithmetics must be applied two times (see examples).

Value

A grid

Author(s)

M. Iturbide

Examples

 
require(climate4R.datasets)
data("CMIP5_Iberia_pr")
data("EOBS_Iberia_pr")
cmip5 <- interpGrid(CMIP5_Iberia_pr, getGrid(EOBS_Iberia_pr))
A <- cmip5 ; B <- EOBS_Iberia_pr; C <- 100

# To evaluate (A - B) / B * C:
relative.delta <- gridArithmetics(A, B, B, C, 
                                  operator = c("-", "/", "*"), 
                                  template = NULL)
                                  
# More than one step needed to evaluate an expression of the type B/(A - B):
grid1 <- gridArithmetics(A, B, operator = "-")
newgrid <- gridArithmetics(B, grid1, operator = "/")

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