Package: ncdf
Title: Interface to Unidata netCDF data files
Maintainer:  David Pierce <dpierce@ucsd.edu>
Version: 1.6
Author: David Pierce
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 version 2 or newer
URL: http://cirrus.ucsd.edu/~pierce/ncdf
Packaged: Fri Jun 30 09:36:04 2006; pierce

Imports: RNetCDF, chron, foreach, doMC, abind, plotrix, raster,
Description: Set of tools to simplify the handling of ncdf files with the RNetCDF package.
Most functions are wrappers for basic functions from RNetCDF to easily run combinations of these
functions for frequently encountered tasks.