optional argument to subset by months. If an integer, it should
be between 1 and 12. If a character, it can be in the format, for example,
‘jan’ or ‘Jan’.
days
optional argument to subset by days. It should be an integer
between 1 and 31.
julian.days
optional argument to subset by julian days. It
should be a vector of integers between 1 and 365. Either use ‘days’ or
‘julian.days’ but not both.
compute.frost
logical (default FALSE). Whether to compute
frost statistics.
frost.temperature
value to use for the calculation of the frost
period (default is zero).
check
logical (default FALSE). Whether to ‘check’ the ‘met’ object.
verbose
whether to print additional infomation to the console
na.rm
whether to remove missing values. Passed to ‘aggregate’
digits
digits for rounding (default is 2).
Value
an object of class ‘data.frame’ with attributes
Details
The frost free period is computed by first spliting each year (or year interval)
in two halves. The first and last frosts in the first and second period are found.
For the Northern hemisphere calendar days are used (1-365).
For the Southern hemisphere the year is split in two halfs, but the second half of
the year is used as the first part of the growing season.
If not frost is found a zero is returned.