Process PRISM data — process_prism • amadeus

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.

See also

terra::rast, terra::metags

Author

Insang Song

Examples

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