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Calculates a central-tendency summary of illuminance over a luxR_trace, optionally restricted to a time window (e.g., a single day or a wake-period subset).

Usage

compute_mean_light(trace, window = NULL, stat = c("mean", "median"))

Arguments

trace

An object of class luxR_trace (see light_trace()).

window

Optional length-2 POSIXct vector giving c(start, end) to restrict the calculation to. Default NULL (use the whole trace).

stat

Character scalar, one of "mean" (default) or "median".

Value

A numeric scalar (lux).