rtide is an R package to calculate tide heights based on tide station harmonics.
It includes the harmonics data for 637 US stations.
library(rtide)
#> rtide is not suitable for navigation
data <- rtide::tide_height(
"Monterey Harbor", from = as.Date("2016-07-13"), to = as.Date("2016-07-15"),
minutes = 10L, tz = "PST8PDT")
print(head(data))
#> # A tibble: 6 x 3
#> Station DateTime TideHeight
#> <chr> <dttm> <dbl>
#> 1 Monterey, Monterey Harbor, California 2016-07-13 00:00:00 0.514
#> 2 Monterey, Monterey Harbor, California 2016-07-13 00:10:00 0.496
#> 3 Monterey, Monterey Harbor, California 2016-07-13 00:20:00 0.481
#> 4 Monterey, Monterey Harbor, California 2016-07-13 00:30:00 0.468
#> 5 Monterey, Monterey Harbor, California 2016-07-13 00:40:00 0.457
#> 6 Monterey, Monterey Harbor, California 2016-07-13 00:50:00 0.449ggplot(data = data, aes(x = DateTime, y = TideHeight)) +
geom_line() +
scale_x_datetime(name = "Date",
labels = date_format("%d %b %Y", tz="PST8PDT")) +
scale_y_continuous(name = "Tide Height (m)") +
ggtitle("Monterey Harbour")
To install the latest official release from CRAN
install.packages("rtide")To install the latest development version from GitHub
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("poissonconsulting/rtide")To install the latest development version from the Poisson drat repository
# install.packages("drat")
drat::addRepo("poissonconsulting")
install.packages("rtide")Tide heights can be also obtained using rtide through a shiny interface developed by Seb Dalgarno.
To cite package 'rtide' in publications use:
Joe Thorley, Luke Miller and Abram Fleishman (2018). rtide: Tide
Heights. R package version 0.0.5.
https://github.com/poissonconsulting/rtide
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Manual{,
title = {rtide: Tide Heights},
author = {Joe Thorley and Luke Miller and Abram Fleishman},
year = {2018},
note = {R package version 0.0.5},
url = {https://github.com/poissonconsulting/rtide},
}Please report any issues.
Pull requests are always welcome.
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
The harmonics data was converted from harmonics-dwf-20151227-free, NOAA web site data processed by David Flater for XTide. The code to calculate tide heights from the harmonics is based on XTide.