The "ncdf" package provides an interface to netCDF format data files in the R statistical language. The interface is a high-level, object oriented one. People who are used to the low-level, procedurally oriented netCDF calls in the netCDF library itself will probably find this interface to be rather different from what they are used to -- but, I hope, better. Neophytes who don't know anything about netCDF and don't care to know anything about netCDF -- they just want to read their data files and get to the analysis -- will almost certainly find the object oriented interface provided by this package far, far easier to use than the low-level interface. Note that the other netCDF reading packages on CRAN generally provide the low-level interface.
I've noticed that the pdf manual on CRAN has some errors.
So here is a pdf manual for ncdf that
works.
The packages are available for download from CRAN, both the source
package and the Windows .zip file. Here are links to local copies
in case you need them:
Source package for UNIX: ncdf_1.7.tar.gz
Zip file for Windows: ncdf_1.7.zip
I try to fix bugs that users find in ncdf, so feel free to send me
email if you find a problem with the code.
Last modified: 10 January 2010
Contact: dpierce@ucsd.edu