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Hi Ahmed,
Your problem appears trivial as you have already specified the form of
the calculation.

Learn how to "extract" specified elements from a data structure:

# first value
sum(dataset1$NPP[dataset1$date >= date1 &
 dataset1$date <= date2])
# second value
dataset2$biomass[dataset2$date == date2] -
 dataset2$biomass[dataset2$date == date1]
# third value
dataset3$littfall[dataset3$date == date2]

Note that you may have to convert character strings to dates to do the
above - see a function like "as.Date". Obviously I do not know the
actual names of your datasets and I am assuming that the variable
names you have given are the actual ones.

Jim

Hi R users,

I need your help to write a code in r that does the following
calculation from three different datasets;

ac = 1/sum (NPP from date 1 to date 2, dataset=1) * (biomass at date 2
-biomass at date 1, dataset = 2) + (littfall at date 2, dataset=3).

all the dates are in yr-month-day format. Which library or function
Should I use to tell R do these calculations of these variables at
different dates.

I appreciate your help.

Ahmed Attia, Ph.D.
Agronomist & Soil Scientist

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