photobiology (version 0.9.25)

eq_ratio: Energy:photon ratio

Description

This function returns the energy to mole of photons ratio for each waveband and a light source spectrum.

Usage

eq_ratio(spct, w.band, wb.trim, use.cached.mult, use.hinges, ...)
# S3 method for default
eq_ratio(spct, w.band, wb.trim, use.cached.mult,
  use.hinges, ...)
# S3 method for source_spct
eq_ratio(spct, w.band = NULL,
  wb.trim = getOption("photobiology.waveband.trim", default = TRUE),
  use.cached.mult = FALSE,
  use.hinges = getOption("photobiology.use.hinges"), ...)
# S3 method for source_mspct
eq_ratio(spct, w.band = NULL,
  wb.trim = getOption("photobiology.waveband.trim", default = TRUE),
  use.cached.mult = FALSE,
  use.hinges = getOption("photobiology.use.hinges"), ...,
  attr2tb = NULL, idx = "spct.idx", .parallel = FALSE,
  .paropts = NULL)

Arguments

spct

source_spct.

w.band

waveband or list of waveband objects.

wb.trim

logical if TRUE wavebands crossing spectral data boundaries are trimmed, if FALSE, they are discarded.

use.cached.mult

logical Flag telling whether multiplier values should be cached between calls.

use.hinges

logical Flag indicating whether to insert "hinges" into the spectral data before integration so as to reduce interpolation errors at the boundaries of the wavebands.

...

other arguments (possibly used by derived methods).

attr2tb

character vector, see add_attr2tb for the syntax for attr2tb passed as is to formal parameter col.names.

idx

character Name of the column with the names of the members of the collection of spectra.

.parallel

if TRUE, apply function in parallel, using parallel backend provided by foreach

.paropts

a list of additional options passed into the foreach function when parallel computation is enabled. This is important if (for example) your code relies on external data or packages: use the .export and .packages arguments to supply them so that all cluster nodes have the correct environment set up for computing.

Value

Computed values are ratios between energy irradiance and photon irradiance for a given waveband. A named numeric vector in the case of methods for individual spectra, with one value for each waveband passed to parameter w.band. A data.frame in the case of collections of spectra, containing one column for each waveband object, an index column with the names of the spectra, and optionally additional columns with metadata values retrieved from the attributes of the member spectra.

By default values are only integrated, but depending on the argument passed to parameter quantity they can be re-expressed as relative fractions or percentages. In the case of vector output, names attribute is set to the name of the corresponding waveband unless a named list is supplied in which case the names of the list members are used, with "e:q" prepended. Units [J mol-1].

Methods (by class)

• default: Default for generic function

• source_spct: Method for source_spct objects

• source_mspct: Calculates energy:photon from a source_mspct object.

See Also

Other photon and energy ratio functions: e_ratio, q_ratio, qe_ratio

Examples

# NOT RUN {
eq_ratio(sun.spct, new_waveband(400,700))

# }