cdfcont {clim.pact}R Documentation

netCDF names and dimensions.

Description

Obtains the variable names and dimension names from a netCDF file. This routine provides some of the information returned by names.netCDF, however this function does not depend on the netCDF package. If it doesn't work, make sure to set the path to include the location of ncdump and ncgen (two netCDF executables, usually under a netcdf direcory). Alternatively, set the path.

Usage

cdfcont(filename,path="",method=NULL)

Arguments

filename name of netCDF file.
path Path to the location where ncdump and ncgen are located.
method The name of the function making calls to the system. In Linux, it is 'system', in Windows 'shell'. If set to NULL, the code tries to decide between these two by probing using Sys.info

Value

a list object containing two character vectors: vars and dims holding the names of the variables and dimensions. dims gives the dimensions for each of the variable, and may contain several names within the same string, separated by a comma, eg. "LONS","LATS",and "LATS, LONS" (strsplit("TIME, LATS, LONS",", ") can be used to split up these variables into seperate names). 'time.origin' returns the time_origin, 'add.offset' gives the 'add_offset' attribute, and 'scale.factor' gives the scale_factor.

Author(s)

R.E. Benestad


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