dim.def.ncv {ncvar}R Documentation

Define NetCDF Dimension(s)

Description

Defines a dimension object containing one or more dimensions.

Usage

dim.def.ncv(name, value, unlim=FALSE, dimlist=NULL)

Arguments

name The name of the dimension.
value The dimension length. That is the number of values along this dimension. This must be a positive integer.
unlim Set to TRUE if an unlimited dimension should be created, otherwise FALSE.
dimlist A list of dimensions in the format "name", value, "name", value, etc.

Details

This function defines a new dimension object. This function is normally not called by the user.

Value

Object or list of objects of class "dim.ncv".

Author(s)

Juerg Schmidli

Examples

## Define some dimensions
dims <- dim.def.ncv(dimlist=list("dimx", 10, "dimy", 20, "time", 2,
            "max_string_length", 30) )
time <- dim.def.ncv(name="time", unlim=TRUE)
dims[[3]] <- time


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