[R] RNetCDF: retrieving variable names and units

[David Pierce]

Hi Jannis,

although I don't know how you'd do that with RNetCDF, with the ncdf
package it's pretty easy:

ncid = open.ncdf( 'file.nc' )
nvars = ncid$nvars
for( ivar in 1:nvars )
    print(paste("var number",ivar,"is named", ncid$var[[ivar]]$name, "and
has units", ncid$var[[ivar]]$units ))

Regards,

--Dave

Jannis wrote:
> Dear List,
>
>
> does anybody has experience with the RNetCDF package? I manage to open a
> connection and copy data from a ncdf file but would need a way to
> automatically retrieve variable names (ideally all of them from one file)
> and units from the file.
>
>
> Any ideas?
> Jannis
>
>
>
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