closestDatetime: closestDatetime

In mpio-be/windR: Analysis of tracking data in relation to wind

Description

Function that finds the closest datetime_ within a vector of given datetimes. E.g. one has a point of a track at a given time and searches for the closest wind data.

Usage

closestDatetime(datetime_, datetimes)

Arguments

datetime_	Given time as POSIXct
datetimes	Vector of possible datetimes as POSIXct

Value

Closest datetime as POSIXct

Examples

d1 = as.POSIXct("2014-06-09 21:44:25 CEST")
dt = as.POSIXct( c("2014-06-08 23:00:00 CEST", "2014-06-09 05:00:00 CEST",
                   "2014-06-09 11:00:00 CEST", "2014-06-09 17:00:00 CEST",
                   "2014-06-09 23:00:00 CEST", "2014-06-10 05:00:00 CEST",
                   "2014-06-10 11:00:00 CEST", "2014-06-10 17:00:00 CEST") )
closestDatetime(datetime_ = d1, datetimes = dt)

mpio-be/windR documentation built on Feb. 2, 2020, 10:04 a.m.