Wrap blockmode

doc/api/index.rst

@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Operations on tabular data:
 
     blockmean
     blockmedian
+    blockmode
     surface
 
 Operations on grids:

pygmt/__init__.py

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 from pygmt.src import (
     blockmean,
     blockmedian,
+    blockmode,
     config,
     grd2cpt,
     grdclip,

pygmt/src/__init__.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
 
 from pygmt.src.basemap import basemap
-from pygmt.src.blockm import blockmean, blockmedian
+from pygmt.src.blockm import blockmean, blockmedian, blockmode
 from pygmt.src.coast import coast
 from pygmt.src.colorbar import colorbar
 from pygmt.src.config import config

pygmt/src/blockm.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """
-blockm - Block average (x,y,z) data tables by mean or median estimation.
+blockm - Block average (x,y,z) data tables by mean, median, or mode estimation.
 """
 import pandas as pd
 from pygmt.clib import Session
@@ -14,18 +14,19 @@
 
 def _blockm(block_method, table, outfile, x, y, z, **kwargs):
     r"""
-    Block average (x,y,z) data tables by mean or median estimation.
+    Block average (x,y,z) data tables by mean, median, or mode estimation.
 
     Reads arbitrarily located (x,y,z) triples [or optionally weighted
-    quadruples (x,y,z,w)] from a table and writes to the output a mean or
-    median (depending on ``block_method``) position and value for every
-    non-empty block in a grid region defined by the ``region`` and ``spacing``
-    parameters.
+    quadruples (x,y,z,w)] from a table and writes to the output a mean,
+    median, or mode (depending on ``block_method``) position and value for
+    every non-empty block in a grid region defined by the ``region`` and
+    ``spacing`` parameters.
 
     Parameters
     ----------
     block_method : str
-        Name of the GMT module to call. Must be "blockmean" or "blockmedian".
+        Name of the GMT module to call. Must be "blockmean" "blockmedian" or
+        "blockmode".
 
     Returns
     -------
@@ -210,3 +211,74 @@ def blockmedian(table=None, outfile=None, *, x=None, y=None, z=None, **kwargs):
         z=z,
         **kwargs
     )
+
+
+@fmt_docstring
+@use_alias(
+    I="spacing",
+    R="region",
+    V="verbose",
+    a="aspatial",
+    f="coltypes",
+    i="incols",
+    o="outcols",
+    r="registration",
+    s="skiprows",
+    w="wrap",
+)
+@kwargs_to_strings(R="sequence")
+def blockmode(table=None, outfile=None, *, x=None, y=None, z=None, **kwargs):
+    r"""
+    Block average (x,y,z) data tables by mode estimation.
+
+    Reads arbitrarily located (x,y,z) triples [or optionally weighted
+    quadruples (x,y,z,w)] and writes to the output a mode position and value
+    for every non-empty block in a grid region defined by the ``region`` and
+    ``spacing`` parameters.
+
+    Takes a matrix, xyz triplets, or a file name as input.
+
+    Must provide either ``table`` or ``x``, ``y``, and ``z``.
+
+    Full option list at :gmt-docs:`blockmode.html`
+
+    {aliases}
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    table : str or {table-like}
+        Pass in (x, y, z) or (longitude, latitude, elevation) values by
+        providing a file name to an ASCII data table, a 2D
+        {table-classes}.
+    x/y/z : 1d arrays
+        Arrays of x and y coordinates and values z of the data points.
+
+    {I}
+
+    {R}
+
+    outfile : str
+        The file name for the output ASCII file.
+
+    {V}
+    {a}
+    {f}
+    {i}
+    {o}
+    {r}
+    {s}
+    {w}
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    output : pandas.DataFrame or None
+        Return type depends on whether the ``outfile`` parameter is set:
+
+        - :class:`pandas.DataFrame` table with (x, y, z) columns if ``outfile``
+          is not set.
+        - None if ``outfile`` is set (filtered output will be stored in file
+          set by ``outfile``).
+    """
+    return _blockm(
+        block_method="blockmode", table=table, outfile=outfile, x=x, y=y, z=z, **kwargs
+    )