Using the small reproducible example below, I'm wondering how best to complete the following task:
In the small reproducible example below, the 3D array prec has indexes that correspond to time, x, y (i.e., prec[time, x, y]). In this case, the time index is hours since some predefined start time. I'd like to add up all the time indexes in 'prec' based on whether or not the corresponding hours fall within a given day. So, at the end of the small example below, there are two variables that I'm left with, prec_idx (an hourly sequence from beg_time to end_time) whose length is equal to the first index (the time index) of the 3D array of precipitation called prec. That is, I'd like to get a 3D array called prec*_daily* that has dimension prec*_daily*[21, 3, 4], where 21 is the number of days and the value in say prec*_daily*[1,x,y] is equal to prec[1,x,y] + prec[2,x,y] + ... + prec[24,x,y] ndays <- 21 base_time <- as.character('2001-12-31T23:00:00Z') hrs_since_base <- 1 # adding an extra second to the end b/c I'm paranoid about the midnight time stamp not being explicit beg_time <- as.POSIXct(base_time, format = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") + (hrs_since_base * 60 * 60) + 1 max_hr_since <- 24 * ndays end_time <- as.POSIXct(base_time, format = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") + (max_hr_since * 60 * 60) + 1 prec_idx <- seq(beg_time, end_time, by='hour') prec <- array(abs(rnorm((24*ndays) * 3 * 4)) , dim=c(24*ndays, 3, 4)) length(prec_idx) # 504 dim(prec) # 504 3 4 # How do I aggregate prec to get daily sums of precipitation based on the prec_idx array? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.