baseDay2decimal function

Base Day

Computes the decimal time representation of the base day of the year. From smwrBase package.

baseDay2decimal(x)

Arguments

• x: a vector of baseDay values, character, or factors of the form month abbreviation and day number, generally created from baseDay. Missing values are permitted and result in missing values in the output. Unmatched values also result in missing values in the output.

Returns

A numeric value representing the base day.

Examples

# The baseDay ordered by calendar year
bd.tmp <- baseDay(c("2000-02-29", "2000-03-01", "2001-03-01"), 
  numeric=FALSE)
baseDay2decimal(bd.tmp)
# ordered by water year, result should agree
bd.tmp <- baseDay(c("2000-02-29", "2000-03-01", "2001-03-01"), 
  numeric=FALSE, year="water")
baseDay2decimal(bd.tmp)

See Also

baseDay