Re: [R] maptools sunrise sunset function

2008-11-10 Thread stephen sefick
try tz="America/Los_Angeles" it was three hours before tz="America/New_York" On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Sebastian P. Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:27:52 -0500, > "stephen sefick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> library(maptools) sunrise.set <- function(lat, long,

Re: [R] maptools sunrise sunset function

2008-11-10 Thread Sebastian P. Luque
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:27:52 -0500, "stephen sefick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > library(maptools) sunrise.set <- function(lat, long, date, > timezone="UTC", num.days=1){ #this needs to be long lat# lat.long <- > matrix(c(long, lat), nrow=1) day <- as.POSIXct(date, tz=timezone) > sequence <- seq(

Re: [R] maptools sunrise sunset function

2008-11-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
turday, November 08, 2008 17:09 To: R-help Subject: Re: [R] maptools sunrise sunset function Nevermind, when one puts in the proper coordinates in decimal degrees everything works just fine. thanks for you patience, Stephen On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:40 PM, stephen sefick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [R] maptools sunrise sunset function

2008-11-10 Thread stephen sefick
library(maptools) sunrise.set <- function(lat, long, date, timezone="UTC", num.days=1){ #this needs to be long lat# lat.long <- matrix(c(long, lat), nrow=1) day <- as.POSIXct(date, tz=timezone) sequence <- seq(from=day, length.out=num.days , by="days") sunrise <-

Re: [R] maptools sunrise sunset function

2008-11-10 Thread Sebastian P. Luque
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:20:03 -0800, "Farley, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a time zone problem. Running the code provided I get the > result in UTC, and a lot of warnings like this: 28: In > as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) ... : unknwon timezone 'PST' >> sunrise.set(34.11583, -118.18719,

Re: [R] maptools sunrise sunset function

2008-11-10 Thread stephen sefick
t of code snippets. I justify it by telling myself it > helps me learn R. > > > > > > > Robert Farley > Metro > www.Metro.net > > -----Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of stephen sefick > Sent: Saturday, November

Re: [R] maptools sunrise sunset function

2008-11-10 Thread Farley, Robert
ED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stephen sefick Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 17:09 To: R-help Subject: Re: [R] maptools sunrise sunset function Nevermind, when one puts in the proper coordinates in decimal degrees everything works just fine. thanks for you patience, Stephen On Sat, No

Re: [R] maptools sunrise sunset function

2008-11-08 Thread stephen sefick
Nevermind, when one puts in the proper coordinates in decimal degrees everything works just fine. thanks for you patience, Stephen On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:40 PM, stephen sefick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ##This is a function that I am trying to write to calculate sunrise > and sunset and works

[R] maptools sunrise sunset function

2008-11-08 Thread stephen sefick
##This is a function that I am trying to write to calculate sunrise and sunset and works "mostly", but returns nonsensical values. What am I #missing? Thanks in advance. ###remember to include maptools as dependence### library(maptools) sunrise.set <- function(lat, long, date, timezone="UTC", nu