[R] Basic astronomy package recommendation wanted.

[Richard O'Keefe]

Thank you very much.  suncalc looks like just what I want.

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 23:44, Enrico Schumann <es using enricoschumann.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2024, Richard O'Keefe writes:
>
> > Given
> >  - UTC timestamp
> >  - a location (latitude,longitude,elevation)
> > I want to know
> >  - the sun angles
> >  - the moon angles
> >  - the phase of the moon.
> > I looked on CRAN for astronomy, but didn't notice anything that seems
> > to offer what I want.  I could try coding these functions myself, but
> > "if you didn't write it you didn't wrong it".
> >
>
> A quick search showed several candidate packages:
>
>   https://cran.r-project.org/package=suntools
>   https://cran.r-project.org/package=suncalc
>
> (but I don't use any of those packages)
>
> Perhaps also worth asking at:
>   https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/R-SIG-Geo/
>
>
> --
> Enrico Schumann
> Lucerne, Switzerland
> http://enricoschumann.net