[R] Basic astronomy package recommendation wanted.

[Kevin Thorpe]

There is also the package solrad that might do some of this. It is more intended for calculating solar radiation, which is probably not what you want, but may do other things you may find helpful.


> On Jan 30, 2024, at 5:44 AM, Enrico Schumann <es using enricoschumann.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2024, Richard O'Keefe writes:
> 
>> Given
>> - UTC timestamp
>> - a location (latitude,longitude,elevation)
>> I want to know
>> - the sun angles
>> - the moon angles
>> - the phase of the moon.
>> I looked on CRAN for astronomy, but didn't notice anything that seems
>> to offer what I want.  I could try coding these functions myself, but
>> "if you didn't write it you didn't wrong it".
>> 
> 
> A quick search showed several candidate packages:
> 
>  https://cran.r-project.org/package=suntools
>  https://cran.r-project.org/package=suncalc
> 
> (but I don't use any of those packages)
> 
> Perhaps also worth asking at:
>  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/R-SIG-Geo/
> 
> 
> -- 
> Enrico Schumann
> Lucerne, Switzerland
> http://enricoschumann.net
> 
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Kevin E. Thorpe
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