[R-sig-Geo] reading .grd file in R?

[govindas at msu.edu]

Yes, i know its a Grads file ..! i have attached the control file and the grid file can be downloaded frm the link given below!

http://www.4shared.com/file/cuSG-05j/rf05_1975.html

I have not used Grads before, still i was able to read in  the control file and get the basic info.! but, i am not sure about the package  required for .grd files in R - will i be able to read a Grads grid file into  R??? 

Thank u all,
Mahalakshmi 

 Quoting Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>:

> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:32 AM,  <govindas at msu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Can someone let me know what package and function should be used to 
>> read *.grd files in R? I tried readGDAL, open.ncdf functions already 
>> which threw errors for file format mismatch.
>
>  A file extension is not a good indication of what the file type is. I
> could rename any file 'foo.grd' and it could be anything.
>
>  Show us what readGDAL gives as an error message, and then we might be
> able to help. readGDAL tries to guess the file format, maybe it
> guessed right but the file is corrupted.
>
>  Where did the file come from? Can we get it? Can you open it in a
> text editor? Do you have a unix/linux box so you can run the command
> 'file' on it?
>
> Barry
>
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