The solaR package allows for reproducible research both for
photovoltaics (PV) systems performance and solar radiation. It
includes a set of classes, methods and functions to calculate the sun
geometry and the solar radiation incident on a photovoltaic generator
and to simulate the performance of several applications of the
photovoltaic energy. This package performs the whole calculation
procedure from both daily and intradaily global horizontal irradiation
to the final productivity of grid-connected PV systems and water
pumping PV systems.
solaR is designed using a set of S4 classes whose core
is a group of slots with multivariate time series. The classes share a
variety of methods to access the information and several visualization
methods. In addition, the package provides a tool for the visual
statistical analysis of the performance of a large PV plant composed of
several systems.
Although solaR is primarily designed for time series associated
to a location defined by its latitude/longitude values and the
temperature and irradiation conditions, it can be easily combined with
spatial packages for space-time analysis.
The best place to learn how to use the package is the companion paper published by the Journal of Statistical Software:
Perpi<U+00F1><U+00E1>n Lamigueiro, O. (2012). solaR: Solar Radiation and Photovoltaic Systems with R. Journal of Statistical Software, 50(9), 1<U+2013>32. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v050.i09
Please note that this package needs to set the timezone to
UTC. Every <U+2018>zoo<U+2019> object created by the package will have an
index with this time zone as a synonym of mean solar time..
You can check it after loading solaR with:
Sys.getenv('TZ')
If you need to change it, use:
Sys.setenv(TZ = 'YourTimeZone')
Index of functions and classes:
G0-class Class "G0": irradiation and irradiance on the
horizontal plane.
Gef-class Class "Gef": irradiation and irradiance on the
generator plane.
HQCurve H-Q curves of a centrifugal pump
Meteo-class Class "Meteo"
NmgPVPS Nomogram of a photovoltaic pumping system
ProdGCPV-class Class "ProdGCPV": performance of a grid
connected PV system.
ProdPVPS-class Class "ProdPVPS": performance of a PV pumping
system.
Shade-class Class "Shade": shadows in a PV system.
Sol-class Class "Sol": Apparent movement of the Sun from
the Earth
aguiar Markov Transition Matrices for the Aguiar etal.
procedure
as.data.frameD Methods for Function as.data.frameD
as.data.frameI Methods for Function as.data.frameI
as.data.frameM Methods for Function as.data.frameM
as.data.frameY Methods for Function as.data.frameY
as.zooD Methods for Function as.zooD
as.zooI-methods Methods for Function as.zooI
as.zooM Methods for Function as.zooM
as.zooY Methods for Function as.zooY
calcG0 Irradiation and irradiance on the horizontal
plane.
calcGef Irradiation and irradiance on the generator
plane.
calcShd Shadows on PV systems.
calcSol Apparent movement of the Sun from the Earth
compare Compare G0, Gef and ProdGCPV objects
compareLosses Losses of a GCPV system
corrFdKt Correlations between the fraction of diffuse
irradiation and the clearness index.
d2r Conversion between angle units.
diff2Hours Small utilities for difftime objects.
fBTd Daily time base
fCompD Components of daily global solar irradiation on
a horizontal surface
fCompI Calculation of solar irradiance on a horizontal
surface
fInclin Solar irradiance on an inclined surface
fProd Performance of a PV system
fPump Performance of a centrifugal pump
fSolD Daily apparent movement of the Sun from the
Earth
fSolI Instantaneous apparent movement of the Sun from
the Earth
fSombra Shadows on PV systems
fTemp Intradaily evolution of ambient temperature
fTheta Angle of incidence of solar irradiation on a
inclined surface
getData Methods for function getData
getG0 Methods for function getG0
getLat Methods for Function getLat
helios Daily irradiation and ambient temperature from
the Helios-IES database
hour Utilities for time indexes.
indexD Methods for Function indexD
indexI Methods for Function indexI
indexRep-methods Methods for Function indexRep
levelplot-methods Methods for function levelplot.
local2Solar Local time, mean solar time and UTC time zone.
mergesolaR Merge solaR objects
optimShd Shadows calculation for a set of distances
between elements of a PV grid connected plant.
prodEx Productivity of a set of PV systems of a PV
plant.
prodGCPV Performance of a grid connected PV system.
prodPVPS Performance of a PV pumping system
pumpCoef Coefficients of centrifugal pumps.
readBD Daily or intradaily values of global horizontal
irradiation and ambient temperature from a
local file or a data.frame.
readG0dm Monthly mean values of global horizontal
irradiation.
shadeplot Methods for Function shadeplot
solaR.theme solaR theme
window Methods for extracting a time window
writeSolar Exporter of solaR results
xyplot-methods Methods for function xyplot in Package 'solaR'