latitudinalMean {climateStability}R Documentation

latitudinalMean

Description

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.

Usage

latitudinalMean(rasterForCalculation)

Arguments

rasterForCalculation

A raster that contains data for plotting according to latitudinal value

Value

A vector of raster values for each absolute value of latitude.

References

Owens, HL, and RP Guralnick. Submitted, Biodiversity Informatics.

See Also

absLatitudinalMean to calculate mean value for each absolute value of latitude.

Examples


data(precipDeviation);
precipStability <- 1/precipDeviation;
latMean <- absLatitudinalMean(rasterForCalculation = precipStability);
plot(latMean, main = "Precipitation Stability by Latitude",
ylab = "Relative Stability", type = "l");


[Package climateStability version 0.1.1 Index]