Description: 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.

Package: ncdf4
Version: 1.6.1
Date: 2012-04-11
Title: Interface to Unidata netCDF (version 4 or earlier) format data
files
Author: David Pierce <dpierce@ucsd.edu>
Maintainer: David Pierce <dpierce@ucsd.edu>
Description: This package 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.
SystemRequirements: netcdf library version 4.1 or later
License: GPL (>= 3)
URL: http://dwpierce.com/software
Packaged: 2012-04-11 15:38:43 UTC; pierce
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2012-04-11 18:13:41