[R-sig-Geo] reading into R IPCC data files

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Thomas Adams <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov> wrote:
>  Barry,
>
> WRT your last line — I could not agree more; the same thought came to me as
> well!

 The counter-argument of course is that these guys are hardcore
programmers who don't have time to put a wussy presentation layer on
top of the data! *Their* Fortran code tells them climate change is
real, why should they have to convert everything to ESRI Raster Grids
when it's so obvious? :)

Barry