ncdf                  package:ncdf                  R Documentation

_R_e_a_d, _w_r_i_t_e, _a_n_d _c_r_e_a_t_e _n_e_t_C_D_F _f_i_l_e_s

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Read from or write to existing netCDF format files, or create new
     ones.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The netCDF data file format from Unidata is a
     platform-independent, binary file that also contains metadata
     describing the contents and format of the data in the file. 
     NetCDF files contain one or more variables, which are  structured
     as regular N-dimensional arrays.  They also contain dimensions,
     which  describe the extent of the variables' arrays.  Data can be
     read from or written to variables in arbitrary hyperslabs.  The R
     package 'ncdf' allows reading from, writing to, and creation of
     netCDF files.  Note that the netCDF library must already be
     installed on your machine for this R interface to the library to
     work.

     This package ("ncdf") is not compatible with the "netCDF" package
     by Thomas Lumley. On the other had, it implements considerably
     more functionality than the "netCDF" package, including creating
     and writing to netCDF files instead of simply reading from them.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     David W. Pierce dpierce@ucsd.edu

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'att.put.ncdf', 'att.get.ncdf', 'close.ncdf', 'create.ncdf',
     'dim.def.ncdf', 'get.var.ncdf', 'put.var.ncdf', 'open.ncdf',
     'print.ncdf', 'set.missval.ncdf', 'sync.ncdf', 'var.def.ncdf'.

