RavenR (version 2.2.0)

rvn_rvc_write: Write Raven Initial Condition (rvc) file

Description

Given initial conditions for state variables at HRUs, generates a rvc file

Usage

rvn_rvc_write(
  filename,
  initHRU,
  init_date,
  description = "Generated by RavenR rvn_rvc_write",
  author = NULL
)

Value

TRUE

return TRUE if the function is executed properly

Arguments

filename

filepath of rvc file to write to (with .rvc extension)

initHRU

dataframe of initial conditions for state variables (columns) for each HRU (rows). columns must be valid SV names and there must be an explicit column of HRU ids named 'HRU'.

init_date

datetime of model start

description

(optional) Description added after file header

author

(optional) Name of author, to be printed in file header.

Author

Leland Scantlebury

See Also

rvn_rvc_res rvn_rvc_from_custom_output

Examples

# Create an initial condition HRU table where SOIL[0] is 0.5mm for all HRUs
# Check.names is set to FALSE to allow for brackets in the column name
initHRU <- data.frame('HRU'=1:10, 'SOIL[0]'=0.5, check.names=FALSE)
model_start = as.Date('2001-10-01')

# Generate RVC file
rvn_rvc_write(filename = file.path(tempdir(), "New.rvc"),
              initHRU = initHRU,
              init_date = model_start,
              author = 'Harry Potter')