Question about the Hourly input Vignette-Brandon

[Brandon Van Huizen]

Hi Dr. Kearney,

I was going through the vignette here https://mrke.github.io/NicheMapR/inst/doc/microclimate-hourly-input-example
To see if I can use it as a template for my study area, however when I got to the part to run the code, it said that the microinput has the wrong number of inputs. 

I see the date on the vignette is from 2024, has the microclimate() function changed, where the parameter inputs have changed?

My end goal is to be able to drive the model using our own on site meteorological data to model turtle nest temperatures and soil moisture. 

Cheers,

Brandon

[NicheMapR]

Hi Brandon,

Thanks for pointing this out - I've updated the vignettes linked to the website and fixed a few other things that had recently broken so it should work now. The issue you had was that there was a new user-option, ndmax, the maximum number of days to get a 'steady periodic' for soil temperatures when running simulations that are not consecutive days, e.g. micro_global does the middle day of each month. In the past this was fixed at 3 days but sometimes you need more iterations depending on what your initial condition assumptions are for the soil thermal profile.

All the best,

Mike

[Brandon Van Huizen]

Awesome, thank you!

[Brandon Van Huizen]

Hi Mike, just following up on this, would I have to uninstall and reinstall NicheMapR on R for the update to take effect? I copied and pasted the tutorial into Rstudio and ran it but still got the same error (microinput has the wrong number of inputs). When I drop the ndmax variable from the microinput though, then the tutorial model runs.

However, when I try and adapt it to my site, several more variables are added that have the same "...has the wrong number of inputs" error. These are the variables below

RHMINN
RHMAXX
CCMINN
WNMAXX
TMINN
TMAXX
RAINFALL
TAIRhr
RHhr
WNhr
CLDhr
SOLRhr
RAINhr
ZENhr
IRDhr

Each of these it says has the wrong number of inputs, but they match the same length as the tutorial, where the first 7 have a length of 365 (running the model for one year) and the next 8 have 8760 (365*24 hours). 

Cheers,

Brandon

On Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 7:20:47 PM UTC-5 NicheMapR wrote:

[NicheMapR]

Hi Brandon,

You would need to reinstall from github - devtools::install_github('mrke/NicheMapR').

Hopefully that solves the issue.

All the best,

Mike

[Brandon Van Huizen]

Okay, sounds good, that fixed the microinput issue, however I am still getting the same error for the min and max values listed below. They have lengths of 365 and 8760. Not sure if I am missing something for them? I am using my own hourly data from my field site.