Hey all! I'm working in R, but am formally trained in Stata, which is why I am terrible at it for now. Hoping someone can shed a light.

Using the rather specific get_chirps package I am trying to download chirps data. Usually you would do:

weatherY00Q01 <- get_chirps(object = filtered_coords, dates = c("2000-01-01", "2000-03-31"))

So dates = c("Begindate", "enddate")). I want to loop over the dates, so I do:

date <- seq(as.Date("2000-01-01"), as.Date("2020-12-31"), by = "1 quarter")

date <- as.data.frame(date)

As I want to perform this per quarter (this is for my aims most convenient), I then do:

for(i in date){

xi <- get_chirps(object = filtered_coords, dates = c("i", "i" 1))

The 'for i' converts date to a value. My code gives the error

Error in strsplit(begindate, "-") : non-character argument

Alternatively, I do:

xi <- get_chirps(object = lonlat, dates = c("i", "i 1"))

giving:

Error in if (!all(cond1, cond2, cond3)) { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

I think I am just misunderstanding the general loop logic, or how to apply it here. My aim is thus to extract data for i and i 1 wherein i = 2000-01-01 and i 1 = 2000-04-01, not 2000-01-02.

Sorry for the long question, and thank you so much for any help!