R help - Aug 2009 - Wind-data analysis with R?

Hello,

are there people outside who use R for analysis of wind-measurement data
(meteorological or for planning of wind power stations)?

Are there already scripts/modules available for analysing and
displaying/plotting wind data in the way it is done in projection/planning
of wind power stations?

If not, would it be of interest to use R for this, and therefore
adapt data-logger output to R (by providing certain data formats)
or by providing R-modules for parsing of the data-logger files?

Or would that better be done by connection to a RDBMS?

Ciao,
   Oliver

Oliver,

You may consider looking at the climatol: Some Tools for Climatology 
(http://cran.r-project.org/) contributed package. This may come close to 
what you're looking for. I would suggest using R with GRASS GIS 
(http://grass.osgeo.org/), which is a powerful combination.

Tom

Oliver Bandel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> are there people outside who use R for analysis of wind-measurement data
> (meteorological or for planning of wind power stations)?
>
> Are there already scripts/modules available for analysing and
> displaying/plotting wind data in the way it is done in projection/planning
> of wind power stations?
>
> If not, would it be of interest to use R for this, and therefore
> adapt data-logger output to R (by providing certain data formats)
> or by providing R-modules for parsing of the data-logger files?
>
> Or would that better be done by connection to a RDBMS?
>
> Ciao,
>    Oliver
>
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Oliver Bandel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> are there people outside who use R for analysis of wind-measurement data
> (meteorological or for planning of wind power stations)?
>
> Are there already scripts/modules available for analysing and
> displaying/plotting wind data in the way it is done in projection/planning
> of wind power stations?
>
> If not, would it be of interest to use R for this, and therefore
> adapt data-logger output to R (by providing certain data formats)
> or by providing R-modules for parsing of the data-logger files?
>
> Or would that better be done by connection to a RDBMS?
>
>   
Hi Oliver,
If a wind rose diagram would be any help:

plot.windrose (oce)
oz.windrose(plotrix)
windrose (circular)
rosavent (climatol)
rose (IPDmisc)

and perhaps some others as well.

Jim

OK,


thanks to all for the many hints.

I tried some of the packages for creating windroses.

Looks good. :-)


Ciao,
  Oliver