On 12-03-29 2:57 PM, ens wrote:> Problem:
>
> I keep getting: "Error in (index - 9):index : argument of length
0" when I
> run this code in an automated loop, but when I step through it by hand, I
> have no problems. It keep crashing when i<-10. I cannot figure this out
to
> save my life! Please help and THANK YOU in advance!
Presumably the index variable is of length zero. You haven't given us a
reproducible example, but I would guess you have index set to something
like index_year[0] at the time the error happens. For example:
> x <- 1:10
> index <- x[0]
> (index-9):index
Error in (index - 9):index : argument of length 0
Duncan Murdoch
>
> variables:
>
> FM100 is a matrix of columns: year, day (all years set to 366 days), region
> 1, region 2... region N
> columnID<- region # +2
> numberFires is the number of fires that occurred in the region (the code
> assures there are more than 0 fires)
> years is a vector of fire years as pertains to each fire counted in
> numberFires
> explanatory.variables$DOY is a vector of Day-of-Year for each fires start
> day
>
> code:
>
> #Read FM100 file
> if (REGION_SCALE =>
"psa"){FM100<-read.csv("climaggregates/fm100_psa.csv",
>
> header=FALSE,col.names=c("year","day",psa$OBJECTID))}
> if (REGION_SCALE =>
"ecosection"){FM100<-read.csv("climaggregates/fm100_ecp.csv",
>
>
header=FALSE,col.names=c("year","day",ecosection$OBJECTID))}
> for (i in 1:numberFires){
> index_yr<-which(FM100$year==years[i])
>
> # file default 366 days/year w/ Feb 29 set to NAN, but DOY accounts
> for leap years when
> # assigning Day-of-year for mm-dd-yyyy
> if (years[i]%%4 != 0) {index_day<-explanatory.variables$DOY[i]+1}
> if (years[i]%%4 == 0) {index_day<-explanatory.variables$DOY[i]}
> index<-index_yr[index_day]
>
> # 10 day antecedent FM100 average
>
explanatory.variables$FM100[i]<-mean(FM100[(index-9):index,columnID])
> }
> rm(FM100)
> print("FM100 variables created")
>
> What's in each variable:
>
>> numberFires
> [1] 73
>> index_yr
> 6955 6956 6957 6958 6959 6960 6961 6962 6963 6964 6965 6966 6967 6968
6969
> 6970 6971 6972 6973 6974 6975 6976 6977 .... [index: 346] 7300 7301 7302
> 7303 7304 7305 7306 7307 7308 7309 7310 7311 7312 7313 7314 7315 7316 7317
> 7318 7319 7320
>> index_day
> [1] 235
>> index
> [1] 7189
>> FM100[(index-9):index,columnID]
> [1] 14.6560 14.3190 13.7730 12.0370 11.1230 10.9360 11.1180 10.3010
10.2910
> 9.5018
>
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