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SPEI (version 1.7)

Generic methods for spei objects: Generic methods for spei objects.

Description

Generic methods for extracting information and plotting spei objects.

Usage

# S3 method for spei
print(x, ...)

# S3 method for spei summary(object, ...)

# S3 method for spei plot(x, main, ...)

Arguments

x

an object of class spei.

object

an object of class spei.

main

an (optional) title for the plot.

...

additional parameters, not used at present.

Author

Santiago Beguería

Details

This functions allow extracting information and plotting spei objects. print yields the fitted values, i.e. a time series of SPEI or SPI values. summary reports the function call, the parameters of the PDF used, and the time series of SPEI or SPI values. plot produces a plot of the time series of SPEI or SPI values, with blue and red colors for positive and negative values, respectively. If a reference period was used in the function call it is shown by a shaded area. In the unlikely case that NA or Inf values were produced, these are shown by circles.

References

S.M. Vicente-Serrano, S. Beguería, J.I. López-Moreno. 2010. A Multi-scalar drought index sensitive to global warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index – SPEI. Journal of Climate 23: 1696, DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2909.1.