Package: ncdf
Title: Interface to Unidata netCDF data files
Maintainer: Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Version: 1.6.5
Author: David Pierce <dpierce@ucsd.edu>
Description: This package provides a high-level R interface to
Unidata's netCDF data files, which are portable across
platforms and include metadata information in addition to the
data sets. Using this package netCDF files can be opened and
data sets read in easily. It is also easy to create new netCDF
dimensions, variables, and files, or manipulate existing netCDF
files. This interface provides considerably more functionality
than the old "netCDF" package for R, and is not compatible with
the old "netCDF" package for R. Release 1.2 (2005-01-24) adds
better support for character variables, and miscellaneous bug
fixes.  Release 1.3 (2005-03-27) is for miscellaneous bug
fixes, and improves the documentation.  Release 1.4
(2005-06-27) improves the efficiency, and adds small bug fixes.
Release 1.5 (2006-02-27) adds support for byte variables, plus
small bug fixes. Release 1.6 (2006-06-19) adds various bug
fixes, plus support for making dimensions WITHOUT dimvars
(coordinate variables), although I think this is a bad idea in
general.  ALSO, the default behavior for put.var.ncdf with
unlimited variables and NO specified start and count parameters
has changed!  Before, the default was to append to the end of
the existing variable.  Now, the default is to assume a start
of 1 along each dimension, and a count of the current length of
each dimension.  This really can be ambiguous when using an
unlimited dimension. I always specify both start and count when
writing to a variable with an unlimited dimension, and suggest
you do as well.  I make require this in a future release, as it
seems to cause people problems.
License: GPL (>= 2)
URL: http://cirrus.ucsd.edu/~pierce/ncdf
Packaged: 2011-01-10 09:27:36 UTC; ripley
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2011-01-10 10:35:06

Package: ncdf
Title: Interface to Unidata netCDF data files
Maintainer: Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Version: 1.6.6
Author: David Pierce <dpierce@ucsd.edu>
Description: This package provides a high-level R interface to
Unidata's netCDF data files, which are portable across
platforms and include metadata information in addition to the
data sets. Using this package netCDF files can be opened and
data sets read in easily. It is also easy to create new netCDF
dimensions, variables, and files, or manipulate existing netCDF
files. This interface provides considerably more functionality
than the old "netCDF" package for R, and is not compatible with
the old "netCDF" package for R. Release 1.2 (2005-01-24) adds
better support for character variables, and miscellaneous bug
fixes.  Release 1.3 (2005-03-27) is for miscellaneous bug
fixes, and improves the documentation.  Release 1.4
(2005-06-27) improves the efficiency, and adds small bug fixes.
Release 1.5 (2006-02-27) adds support for byte variables, plus
small bug fixes. Release 1.6 (2006-06-19) adds various bug
fixes, plus support for making dimensions WITHOUT dimvars
(coordinate variables), although I think this is a bad idea in
general.  ALSO, the default behavior for put.var.ncdf with
unlimited variables and NO specified start and count parameters
has changed!  Before, the default was to append to the end of
the existing variable.  Now, the default is to assume a start
of 1 along each dimension, and a count of the current length of
each dimension.  This really can be ambiguous when using an
unlimited dimension. I always specify both start and count when
writing to a variable with an unlimited dimension, and suggest
you do as well.  I may require this in a future release, as it
seems to cause people problems.
License: GPL (>= 2)
Packaged: 2011-09-01 09:09:24 UTC; ripley
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2011-09-02 11:16:12