I have a raster brick for daily precipitation data and I need to convert it to monthly data, how would I go about doing this? Each layer is a day and there are 34698 days (i.e. too many to go through manually and create monthly averages by listing mean(raster1, raster 2... etc)
class : RasterBrick
dimensions : 64, 58, 3712, 34698 (nrow, ncol, ncell, nlayers)
resolution : 0.44, 0.44 (x, y)
extent : 12.1, 37.62, -45.54, -17.38 (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)
crs : NA
source : C:/Users/teyah/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpQBzpnO/raster/r_tmp_2020-08-13_121709_23408_66253.grd
names : Precipitation.1, Precipitation.2, Precipitation.3, Precipitation.4, Precipitation.5, Precipitation.6, Precipitation.7, Precipitation.8, Precipitation.9, Precipitation.10, Precipitation.11, Precipitation.12, Precipitation.13, Precipitation.14, Precipitation.15, ...
min values : 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, 0.000000e+00, ...
max values : 6.533941e-04, 1.833772e-04, 8.561218e-04, 1.070062e-03, 7.177751e-04, 6.058318e-04, 5.470571e-04, 1.588907e-03, 1.674356e-03, 1.091221e-03, 5.895557e-04, 3.984022e-04, 4.418955e-04, 3.041818e-04, 2.085147e-04, ...
rts
package. There are specific functions for aggregating raster timeseries data to different summary periods.