Calculating Heat Stress

Implements the simpler and faster heat index, which matches the values of the original 1979 heat index and its 2022 extension for air temperatures above 300 K (27 C, 80 F) and with only minor differences at lower temperatures. Also implements an algorithm for calculating the thermodynamic (and psychrometric) wet-bulb (and ice-bulb) temperature.


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install.packages("heatindex")

0.0.2 by David M. Romps, a year ago


https://heatindex.org


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/heatindex


Authors: Yi-Chuan Lu [aut] , David M. Romps [aut, cre] (ORCID:


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


MIT + file LICENSE license


Imports Rcpp

Linking to Rcpp

System requirements: C++17


See at CRAN