Thanks for the reprex. Wouldn't have bothered without it. The following is I believe **almost** what you want. It seems a bit clumsy to me, so others may provide you something neater. But anyway...
## Convert POSIXct vector to dates ## There are 22 different days, not 21 date <- as.Date(prec_idx) ## Sum results by date at each i,j of the last 2 array dimensions z <- lapply(unique(date),function(d) apply(prec[date==d,,],2:3,sum) ) ## This gives a list with 22 3x4 matrices of sums. ## Convert to 3x4x22 array with prec_daily <- array(unlist(z),dim=c(3,4,22)) ## This is the **almost** part. You can use the aperm() function to reshape the array if you like. I leave those pleasures to you. HTH. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Morway, Eric <emor...@usgs.gov> wrote: > 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. > [[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.