pfm

The R package pfm provides some utilities for dealing with FOCUS pesticide fate modelling tools, (currently only TOXSWA cwa files), made available under the GNU public license. This means:

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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Installation

You can install the package from github, e.g. using the devtools package. Using quick = TRUE skips docs, multiple-architecture builds, demos, and vignettes, to make installation as fast and painless as possible.

library(devtools)
install_github("jranke/pfm", subdir = "pkg", quick = TRUE)

Use

Analyse TOXSWA output

Read in and analyse a cwa file:

library(pfm)
## Loading required package: R6
example_cwa <- read.TOXSWA_cwa("00003s_pa.cwa")
plot(example_cwa)

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example_cwa$get_events(c(20, 100))
example_cwa$moving_windows(c(7, 21))
print(example_cwa)
## <TOXSWA_cwa> data from file 00003s_pa.cwa segment 20 
##                datetime     t t_firstjan t_rel_to_max cwa_mug_per_L
## 20  1978-10-01 00:00:00 0.000   273.0000      -55.333             0
## 40  1978-10-01 01:00:00 0.042   273.0417      -55.291             0
## 60  1978-10-01 02:00:00 0.083   273.0833      -55.250             0
## 80  1978-10-01 03:00:00 0.125   273.1250      -55.208             0
## 100 1978-10-01 04:00:00 0.167   273.1667      -55.166             0
## 120 1978-10-01 05:00:00 0.208   273.2083      -55.125             0
##     cwa_tot_mug_per_L
## 20                  0
## 40                  0
## 60                  0
## 80                  0
## 100                 0
## 120                 0
## Moving window analysis
##    window  max_TWAC max_AUC_h max_AUC_d
## 1  7 days 2.3926551  401.9660  16.74859
## 2 21 days 0.8369248  421.8101  17.57542
## Event statistics for threshold 20 
##   t_start  cwa_max duration pre_interval    AUC_h   AUC_d
## 1  55.083 40.58401    0.417       55.083 365.7912 15.2413
## Event statistics for threshold 100 
## No events found

Calculate PEC soil

Simple PEC soil calculation for an application rate of 100 g/ha and 25% interception, assuming complete mixing into 5 cm and a soil bulk density of 1.5 kg/L, output in mg/kg:

PEC_soil(100, int = 0.25)
## [1] 0.1

Rautmann drift data

Some of the drift percentage data published by the JKI are included. To see the data for one application:

drift_data_JKI[1]
## [[1]]
##         crop
## distance Ackerbau Obstbau früh Obstbau spät
##       1      2.77           NA           NA
##       3        NA        29.20        15.73
##       5      0.57        19.89         8.41
##       10     0.29        11.81         3.60
##       15     0.20         5.55         1.81
##       20     0.15         2.77         1.09
##       30     0.10         1.04         0.54
##       40     0.07         0.52         0.32
##       50     0.06         0.30         0.22

PEC surface water due to drift

Initial PEC values for an application of 100 g/ha in the vicinity of a 30 cm deep water body are obtained using

PEC_sw_drift_ini(100, applications = 1)
##        1 m        5 m       10 m       20 m 
## 0.92333333 0.19000000 0.09666667 0.05000000