| PackageDescription | Provides a high-level R interface to data files written using Unidata's
netCDF library (version 4 or earlier), which are binary data files that
are portable across platforms and include metadata information in
addition to the data sets. Using this package, netCDF files (either
version 4 or "classic" version 3) can be opened and data sets read in
easily. It is also easy to create new netCDF dimensions, variables,
and files, in either version 3 or 4 format, and manipulate existing
netCDF files. This package replaces the former ncdf package, which
only worked with netcdf version 3 files. For various reasons the names
of the functions have had to be changed from the names in the ncdf
package. The old ncdf package is still available at the URL given
below, if you need to have backward compatibility. It should be
possible to have both the ncdf and ncdf4 packages installed
simultaneously without a problem. However, the ncdf package does not
provide an interface for netcdf version 4 files. |