hackWRF

An R-package with functions to work with WRF, NetCDF and model evaluation.

The functions include:

• meta() a function to read and write metadata on NetCDF files;
• export_serie() and export_mean() that export output for a data.table (.Rds) or NetCDF (.nc) files;
• evaluate() a geral function to evaluate model results performing some tests and pairing the data;
• stats() a custon wraper to the openair::modStats() with some customisation;
• ccbind() and crbind() conditional cbind() and conditional rbind();
• last() but not least, a fnunctions to return the last member of a vector.

Installation

System dependencies

To Ubuntu

The following steps are required for installation on Ubuntu:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable --yes
  sudo apt-get --yes --force-yes update -qq
  # netcdf dependencies:
  sudo apt-get install --yes libnetcdf-dev netcdf-bin
  # units/udunits2 dependency:
  sudo apt-get install --yes libudunits2-dev
  # sf dependencies (without libudunits2-dev):
  sudo apt-get install --yes libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev

To Fedora

The following steps are required for installation on Fedora:

  sudo dnf update
  # netcdf dependencies:
  sudo yum install netcdf-devel
  # units/udunits2 dependency:
  sudo yum install udunits2-devel
  # sf dependencies (without libudunits2-dev):
  sudo yum install gdal-devel proj-devel proj-epsg proj-nad geos-devel

To Windows

No additional steps for windows installation.

Detailed instructions can be found at netcdf, libudunits2-dev and sf developers page.

To conda (miniconda / anaconda)

First create a new environment called rspatial (or a better name):

  conda create -n rspatial -y
  conda activate rspatial

and to install some requisites:

  conda install -c conda-forge r-sf r-rgdal r-lwgeom r-raster -y

Package installation

with devtools:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("schuch666/hackWRF")

or remotes:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("schuch666/hackWRF")

Some examples:

• Examples page.

Licence

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).