openair (version 0.4-10)

calendarPlot: Plot time series values in convential calendar format

Description

This function will plot one year of data by month laid out in a conventional calendar format. The main purpose is to help rapidly visualise potentially complex data in a familiar way. Users can also choose to show daily mean wind vectors if wind speed and direction are available.

Usage

calendarPlot(mydata,
    pollutant = "nox", year = 2003, type = "default", 
    annotate = "date", statistic = "mean", 
    cols = "heat", limits = c(0, 100),
    main = paste(pollutant, "in", year),
    key.header = "", key.footer = "", 
    key.position = "right", key = NULL,
    auto.text = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

mydata

A data frame minimally containing date and at least one other numeric variable and a year. The date should be in either Date format or class POSIXct.

pollutant

Mandatory. A pollutant name corresponding to a variable in a data frame should be supplied e.g. pollutant = "nox".

year

Year to plot e.g. year = 2003.

type

Not yet implemented.

annotate

This option controls what appears on each day of the calendar. Can be: "date" - shows day of the month; "wd" - shows vector-averaged wind direction, or "ws" - shows vector-averaged wind direction scaled by wind speed.

statistic

Not currently implemented - only mean is currently calculated.

cols

Colours to be used for plotting. Options include "default", "increment", "heat", "jet" and user defined. For user defined the user can supply a list of colour names recognised by R (type colours() to see the full list). An exam

limits

Use this option to manually set the colour scale limits. This is useful in the case when there is a need for two or more plots and a consistent scale is needed on each. Set the limits to cover the maximimum range of the data for all plots of

main

The plot title; default is pollutant and year.

key.header, key.footer

Adds additional text/labels to the scale key. For example, passing calendarPlot(mydata, key.header = "header", key.footer = "footer") adds addition text above and below the scale key. These arguments are passed to drawOpenKe

key.position

Location where the scale key is to plotted. Allowed arguments currently include "top", "right", "bottom" and "left".

key

Fine control of the scale key via drawOpenKey. See drawOpenKey for further details.

auto.text

Either TRUE (default) or FALSE. If TRUE titles and axis labels will automatically try and format pollutant names and units properly e.g. by subscripting the `2' in NO2.

...

Other graphical parameters.

Value

• As well as generating the plot itself, calendarPlot also returns an object of class ``openair''. The object includes three main components: call, the command used to generate the plot; data, the data frame of summarised information used to make the plot; and plot, the plot itself. If retained, e.g. using output <- calendarPlot(mydata, "nox"), this output can be used to recover the data, reproduce or rework the original plot or undertake further analysis. An openair output can be manipulated using a number of generic operations, including print, plot and summary. See openair.generics for further details.

Warning

This function is under development.

Details

calendarPlot will plot one year of data in a conventional calendar format i.e. by month and day of the week. The main purpose of this function is to make it easy to visualise data in a familiar way. Currently the mean value of a variable is plotted using a colour scale. Further statistics will be added in due course. If wind direction are available it is then possible to plot the wind direction vector on each day. This is very useful for getting a feel for the meteorological conditions that affect pollutant concentrations. Note that if hourly or higher time resolution are supplied, then calendarPlot will calculate daily averages using timeAverage, which ensures that wind directions are vector-averaged. If wind speed is also available, then setting the option annotate = "ws" will plot the wind vectors whose length is scaled to the wind speed. Thus information on the daily mean wind speed and direction are available.

See Also

timePlot, timeVariation

Examples

# load example data from package
data(mydata)

# basic plot
calendarPlot(mydata, pollutant = "o3", year = 2003)

# show wind vectors
calendarPlot(mydata, pollutant = "o3", year = 2003, annotate = "wd")

# show wind vectors scaled by wind speed and different colours
calendarPlot(mydata, pollutant = "o3", year = 2003, annotate = "ws",
cols = "heat")

# show only specific months with selectByDate
calendarPlot(selectByDate(mydata, month = c(3,6,10), year = 2003),
pollutant = "o3", year = 2003, annotate = "ws", cols = "heat")