Convert a climate data frame to a FINN environment array

Reshapes a long-format climate table into the site x year x variable array FINN uses internally, auto-detecting the time resolution from the columns.

Usage

climateDF2array(climate_dt, env_vars)

Arguments

climate_dt

A data.frame/data.table of climate values in long format, with siteID, a time column (e.g. year), and one column per variable.

env_vars

character Names of the environmental variable columns to extract.

Value

A numeric array of environmental values indexed by site, time and variable.