[R] converting NSCA HDF5 files to ASCII

[Alex Anderson]

  Hi All,
I am struggling with the task of converting some MODIS remotes sensed 
image data in HDF5 format to ASCII format.  I have found oblique 
references to the HDF format in the help files for  the packages hdf5, 
RnetCDF, and ncdf, but nothing that appears to read in an HDF format 
file and produce an ASCII grid file. I am hoping to avoid having to move 
to another platform, and I have about 3,000 files to convert, so a batch 
processing option is preferable (otherwise I would use some of the 
freely available software packages like HDF look).  Any thoughts would 
be most appreciated.
regards
Alex

Phd Candidate,
Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change
School of Marine and Tropical Biology
James Cook University, Townsville
Queensland, Australia, 4811