Plot average temperature

plotAvgTemp builds a bar plot of time average temperature and two line plots with maximum and minimum temperature.

Usage

plotAvgTemp(
  mydata,
  date = "date",
  temp = "temp",
  avg.time = "1 month",
  ylabel = NULL,
  title = "",
  locale = NULL
)

Arguments

mydata

A dataframe containing data to plot.

date

The name of the column representing date and time. Data must be of class POSIXlt or POSIXct (default = "date"). If the timezone is unspecified, it is set to GMT.

temp

Name of the column representing temperature (default = "temp")

avg.time

Defines the time period to average to. Currently the only supported period is "1 month" (default).

ylabel

The label along the y axis. If missing a default label is plotted.

title

Optional plot title

locale

Locale to use for day and month names. Default is current locale. Supported locales are listed in stringi::stri_locale_list(). All other labels are in English by default or in Italian if its locale is specified.

Value

A plot with average, min and max temperature in a given range of time.

See also

plotStabilityClass(), plotAvgRad()

Examples

# Plot average monthly temperature and curves with monthly maximum and minimum
data(stMeteo)
str(stMeteo)
#> 'data.frame':	8760 obs. of  7 variables:
#>  $ date: POSIXct, format: "2013-01-01 00:00:00" "2013-01-01 01:00:00" ...
#>  $ ws  : num  0.7 0.7 0.7 0.9 1.1 1 1 1 0.8 1 ...
#>  $ wd  : num  276 286 286 286 284 ...
#>  $ temp: num  -0.9 -1.1 -1.3 -1.9 -2.1 -2.4 -3.1 -3 -3 -3 ...
#>  $ radg: num  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20.3 ...
#>  $ tcc : num  0 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 ...
#>  $ pgt : num  6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 6 4 ...
plotAvgTemp(stMeteo)

# Add a custom title
plotAvgTemp(stMeteo, title = "Monthly temperature")


# Override default locale
plotAvgTemp(stMeteo, avg.time = "1 month", locale = "it_IT")