[R-sig-Geo] Dear Friends,

[Virgilio Gomez-Rubio]

Dear Rodrigo,

I believe that you can use 'readBin' to read from binary files in R. So
you should be able to read your data with R. Given that you have the
full information about the grid points at which your data was taken, it
should be possible to make a SpatialGrid with this information and put
all the data (grid + covariates) together in a SpatialGridDataFrame.

I am afraid that this may require a bit of programming (not much though)
and that there is probably no specific function to read your data as it
is.

Hope this helps,

Virgilio

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 15:54 +0200, Rodrigo W. Soria Auza wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a file (MOD06_auza_gridded_cldstats.bin) created by a college 
> (Richard Frey). It is a binary written with FORTRAN in a little-endian 
> (Linux) machine that contains a 400x300x84-bite integer array. The 400 
> represents 1/20 degree cells in a N-S direction (7S-27S), 300 is 1/20 
> degree cells in the E-W direction (55-70W). The 8 products in order for 
> each of the 120000 cells:
> 1) Number retrievals
> 2) Yearly mean cloud fraction
> 3) Frequency of high, thick clouds
> 4) Frequency of thick clouds top temperatures <-65C
> 5) Same as # 4 but <-38C
> 6) Same as # 4 but <-12C
> 7) Center of cell latitude
> 8) Center of cell longitude
> So as you can see is a multi layer file
> Now neither Richard (the guy who made this file) nor I know how to 
> import this kind of file into other GIS software, and I would like to 
> know if somebody here could give us detailed instructions or advise to 
> convert layer by layer into a common format (separate from each other. 
> so we could manage every layer independently from the others), so we 
> will be able to import them into other GIS software (Arcview or DIVA 
> GIS) as raster (or grid) layers. (maybe ascii?).
> I have a limited experience using R, but every day I learn a bit more 
> and I think (actually hope) there is a package that is able to do this.
> Sincerely,
> Rodrigo
> 
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