gunit

In plant physiology, conductance to heat, carbon dioxide, and water vapour are expressed in different units for different purposes. For heat exchange, units of m/s are most often used, whereas for gas exchange units of either mol/m^2/s (the default output from LICOR devices) or umol/m^2/s/Pa are used. I found it difficult to keep all the conversions straight, so I made a small package to help ensure proper conversion.

Installation

You can install the current version of gunit from GitHub with:

remotes::install_github("cdmuir/gunit")

Or the released version of gunit from CRAN with:

install.packages("gunit")

Example

This is a basic example which shows how to convert conductance units:

library(gunit)
library(units)
#> udunits system database from /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/library/units/share/udunits

g_sw <- set_units(0.4, mol/m^2/s)
convert_conductance(g_sw)
#> # A tibble: 1 x 3
#>         `m/s` `umol/m^2/s/Pa` `mol/m^2/s`
#>         [m/s] [umol/m^2/Pa/s] [mol/m^2/s]
#> 1 0.009786197        3.947709         0.4

# Change Temperature and Pressure
g_sw <- set_units(0.4, mol/m^2/s)
convert_conductance(g_sw, 
                    P = set_units(80, kPa), 
                    Temp = set_units(293, K))
#> # A tibble: 1 x 3
#>        `m/s` `umol/m^2/s/Pa` `mol/m^2/s`
#>        [m/s] [umol/m^2/Pa/s] [mol/m^2/s]
#> 1 0.01218068               5         0.4

# Calculations can also be vectorized

g_sw <- set_units(seq(0.1, 0.4, 0.1), mol/m^2/s)
convert_conductance(g_sw)
#> # A tibble: 4 x 3
#>         `m/s` `umol/m^2/s/Pa` `mol/m^2/s`
#>         [m/s] [umol/m^2/Pa/s] [mol/m^2/s]
#> 1 0.002446549       0.9869272         0.1
#> 2 0.004893099       1.9738543         0.2
#> 3 0.007339648       2.9607815         0.3
#> 4 0.009786197       3.9477087         0.4

Contributors

• Chris Muir

Comments and contributions

I welcome comments, criticisms, and especially contributions! GitHub issues are the preferred way to report bugs, ask questions, or request new features. You can submit issues here:

https://github.com/cdmuir/gunit/issues

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• License: MIT
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