latitudinalMean {climateStability} | R Documentation |
A function to calculate mean values of a raster at every line of latitude, at the resolution of a given raster layer. Put another way, for each row in the raster, it calculates a mean.
latitudinalMean(rasterForCalculation)
rasterForCalculation |
A raster that contains data for plotting according to latitudinal value |
A vector of raster values for each absolute value of latitude.
Owens, HL, and RP Guralnick. Submitted, Biodiversity Informatics.
absLatitudinalMean
to calculate mean value for each absolute value of latitude.
data(precipDeviation); precipStability <- 1/precipDeviation; latMean <- absLatitudinalMean(rasterForCalculation = precipStability); plot(latMean, main = "Precipitation Stability by Latitude", ylab = "Relative Stability", type = "l");