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Identify metabolic days in a time series based on sunrise and sunset times for a location and date. The metabolic day is considered the 24 hour period between sunsets for two adjacent calendar days. The function calls the getSunlightTimes function from the suncalc package.

Usage

metab_day(dat_in, ...)

# S3 method for default
metab_day(dat_in, tz, lat, long, ...)

Arguments

dat_in

data.frame

...

arguments passed to or from other methods

tz

chr string for timezone, e.g., 'America/Chicago'

lat

numeric for latitude

long

numeric for longitude (negative west of prime meridian)

Details

This function is only used within ecometab and should not be called explicitly.