[Rd] large netCDF files under Windows.
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jan 2 07:59:51 CET 2008
For the record: Thomas provided a test case and both ncdf and RNetCDF have
been rebuilt with support for files > 2Gb. Updated versions are now on
the CRANextras repository.
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> The netcdf code is rather silly: it uses 64-bit versions of seek etc when
> building a DLL, not on Windows. I can rebuild it using 64-bit seek, but
> could you please send me (privately) a test case?
>
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Thomas Lumley wrote:
>
>> Has anyone successfully used R to access netCDF files larger than 2Gb
>> under Windows?
>>
>> With the version of the ncdf package that Brian Ripley provides for CRAN
>> extras I get an assertion failure with a 12Gb file, but not a 1Gb subset
>> of it. The same 12Gb file is ok with ncdf on Mac OS X (32bit R) and on
>> Linux(64bit R).
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