R Raster - Create layer with conditionals looping through multiple layers - r

Question

I am working with a time-series raster brick. The brick has 365 layers representing a value for each day of the year.
I want to create a new layer in which each cell holds the number of day of year in which a certain condition is met.
My current approach is the following (APHRO being the raster brick), but returns the error message below:
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r <- raster(ncol=40, nrow=20)
r[] <- rnorm(n=ncell(r))
APHRO <- brick(x=c(r, r*2, r))
NewLayer <- calc(APHRO, fun=FindOnsetDate(APHRO))
Returning this error:
Error in .local(x, ...) : not a valid subset
And the function being parsed:
FindOnsetDate <- function (s) {
x=0
repeat {
x+1
if(s[[x]] >= 20 | s[[x]] + s[[x+1]] >= 20 & ChkFalseOnset() == FALSE)
{break}
}
return(x);
}
With the function for the 3rd condition being:
ChkFalseOnset <- function (x) {
for (i in 0:13){
if (sum(APHRO[[x+i:x+i+7]]) >= 5)
{return(FALSE); break}
return(TRUE)
}
}
Thank you in advance!!!!
And please let me know if I should provide more information - tried to keep it parsimonious.

Answer 1

The problem is that your function is no good:
FindOnsetDate <- function (s) {
x=0
repeat {
x+1
if(s[[x]] >= 20 | s[[x]] + s[[x+1]] >= 20)
{break}
}
return(x);
}
FindOnsetDate(1:100)
#Error in s[[x]] :
# attempt to select less than one element in get1index <real>
Perhaps something like this:
FindOnsetDate <- function (s) {
j <- s + c(s[-1], 0)
sum(j > 20 | s > 20)
# if all values are positive, just do sum(j > 20)
}
FindOnsetDate(1:20)
#10
This works now:
r <- calc(APHRO, FindOnsetDate)

Answer 2

I would suggest a basic two-step process. With a 365-days example:
set.seed(123)
r <- raster(ncol=40, nrow=20)
r_list <- list()
for(i in 1:365){
r_list[[i]] <- setValues(r,rnorm(n=ncell(r),mean = 10,sd = 5))
}
APHRO <- brick(r_list)
Use a basic logic test for each iteration:
r_list2 <- list()
for(i in 1:365){
if(i != 365){
r_list2[[i]] <- APHRO[[i]] >= 20 | APHRO[[i]] + APHRO[[i+1]] >= 20
}else{
r_list2[[i]] <- APHRO[[i]] >= 20
}
}
Compute sum by year:
NewLayer <- calc(brick(r_list2), fun=sum)
plot(NewLayer)