ir_normalize: Normalizes infrared spectra in an ir object
Description
ir_normalize normalizes the intensity values of infrared spectra.
Spectra can be normalized in three ways (value for argument method):
"zeroone"
Normalization so that the intensity values range in [0;1].
Note that for different spectra, for different wavenumber values the
intensity may be 1 after normalization, depending on the location of the
peak with the maximum height.
"area"
Normalization so that the intensity values of each spectrum
sum to 1. Note that in the case of negative intensities values, these will
be count as negative values during summation.
A numeric value
Normalization so that the intensity at a specified
wavenumber value has value 1 and the minimum intensity value is 0.
Usage
ir_normalize(x, method = "area")
ir_normalise(x, method = "area")
Value
An object of class ir representing a normalized version of
x.
Arguments
x
An object of class ir.
method
A character value specifying which normalization method to
apply. If method = "zeroone", all intensity values will be normalized
to [0;1]. If method = "area", all intensity values will be divided by
the sum of the intensity values at all wavenumber values of the spectrum. If
method is convertible to a numeric value, e.g. method = "980",
the intensity of all spectra at a wavenumber value of 980 will be set to 1
and the minimum intensity value of each spectrum will be set to 0, i.e. the
spectra will be normalized referring to a specific wavenumber value.