[R] OPeNDAP access with R

[Roy Mendelssohn]

The package ncdf4  (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ncdf4/index.html) can access remote OpeNDAP data services.  If you use Windows, the author has a binary package on his site.

Also, if you want a GUI that works with R and allows you to visually select the space-time slice you want, try the Environmental Data Connector for R (http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/products/EDC/EDCdownloads.html)

-Roy


On Dec 13, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Phil Wiles wrote:

> I am in the process of converting from Matlab to R, but a major sticking
> point for me at the moment is accessing data via OPeNDAP.
> 
> After several hours of searching, I found that other people have discussed
> this functionality in the past, but it does not appear to have yet been
> developed.  One programmer, Luke Miller, has managed a work-around by
> downloading ascii data from an OPeNDAP site (
> http://lukemiller.org/index.php/2011/02/accessing-noaa-tide-data-with-r/),
> but direct access to the netcdf files would reduce data download
> requirements greatly.
> 
> I'm sure this must be a common requirement, particularly among earth
> scientists - perhaps they are all still using Matlab.  Does anyone have
> have a solution?  Or maybe I am just not proficient enough at finding
> solutions on the R-network...
> 
> Thanks in advance for your time,
> 
> Phil.
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