Plot annual count of normal days and days above and below normal

Source: R/plot_annual_normal_days.R

Plots the number of days per year within, above and below the 'normal' range (typically between 25 and 75th percentiles) for each day of the year. Upper and lower-range percentiles are calculated for each day of the year of from all years, and then each daily flow value for each year is compared. Calculates statistics from all values from complete years, unless specified. Data calculated using calc_annual_normal_days() function. Returns a list of plots.

plot_annual_normal_days(
  data,
  dates = Date,
  values = Value,
  groups = STATION_NUMBER,
  station_number,
  normal_percentiles = c(25, 75),
  roll_days = 1,
  roll_align = "right",
  water_year_start = 1,
  start_year,
  end_year,
  exclude_years,
  months = 1:12,
  include_title = FALSE
)

Arguments

data

Data frame of daily data that contains columns of dates, flow values, and (optional) groups (e.g. station numbers). Leave blank or set to NULL if using station_number argument.

dates

Name of column in data that contains dates formatted YYYY-MM-DD. Only required if dates column name is not 'Date' (default). Leave blank or set to NULL if using station_number argument.

values

Name of column in data that contains numeric flow values, in units of cubic metres per second. Only required if values column name is not 'Value' (default). Leave blank if using station_number argument.

groups

Name of column in data that contains unique identifiers for different data sets, if applicable. Only required if groups column name is not 'STATION_NUMBER'. Function will automatically group by a column named 'STATION_NUMBER' if present. Remove the 'STATION_NUMBER' column beforehand to remove this grouping. Leave blank if using station_number argument.

station_number

Character string vector of seven digit Water Survey of Canada station numbers (e.g. "08NM116") of which to extract daily streamflow data from a HYDAT database. Requires tidyhydat package and a HYDAT database. Leave blank if using data argument.

normal_percentiles

Numeric vector of two values, lower and upper percentiles, respectively indicating the limits of the normal range. Default c(25,75).

roll_days

Numeric value of the number of days to apply a rolling mean. Default 1.

roll_align

Character string identifying the direction of the rolling mean from the specified date, either by the first ('left'), last ('right'), or middle ('center') day of the rolling n-day group of observations. Default 'right'.

water_year_start

Numeric value indicating the month (1 through 12) of the start of water year for analysis. Default 1.

start_year

Numeric value of the first year to consider for analysis. Leave blank or set well before start date (i.e. 1800) to use from the first year of the source data.

end_year

Numeric value of the last year to consider for analysis. Leave blank or set well after end date (i.e. 2100) to use up to the last year of the source data.

exclude_years

Numeric vector of years to exclude from analysis. Leave blank or set to NULL to include all years.

months

Numeric vector of months to include in analysis. For example, 3 for March, 6:8 for Jun-Aug or c(10:12,1) for first four months (Oct-Jan) when water_year_start = 10 (Oct). Default summarizes all months (1:12).

include_title

Logical value to indicate adding the group/station number to the plot, if provided. Default FALSE.

Value

A list of ggplot2 objects with the following for each station provided:

Annual_Normal_Days

a plot that contains the number of days outside normal

Default plots on each object:

Normal_Days

number of days per year below and above the daily normal (default 25/75th percentile)

Below_Normal_Days

number of days per year below the daily normal (default 25th percentile)

Above_Normal_Days

number of days per year above the daily normal (default 75th percentile)

Examples

# Run if HYDAT database has been downloaded (using tidyhydat::download_hydat())
if (file.exists(tidyhydat::hy_downloaded_db())) {

# Plot annual statistics with default limits of normal (25 and 75th percentiles)
plot_annual_normal_days(station_number = "08NM116") 

# Plot annual statistics with custom limits of normal
plot_annual_normal_days(station_number = "08NM116",
                        normal_percentiles = c(10,90))
                           
}
#> Warning: One or more calculations included missing values and NA's were produced. If desired, filter data for complete years or months, or use the 'ignore_missing' or 'allowed_missing' arguments (if applicable) to ignore or allow some missing values.
#> Warning: One or more calculations included missing values and NA's were produced. If desired, filter data for complete years or months, or use the 'ignore_missing' or 'allowed_missing' arguments (if applicable) to ignore or allow some missing values.
#> $Annual_Normal_Days

#>