[R-sig-Geo] Read HDF files

[Paul Hiemstra]

 On 09/01/2011 05:20 PM, Arnaud Mosnier wrote:
> Hi Geo UseRs,
>
> I am searching a way to read and manage HDF files in R (like files provided
> by the ocean color web site, http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/).
>
> Thanks
>
> Arnaud
>
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The answer can be found by googling for "R read hdf". That leads to the
HDF5 package or building GDAL with HDF support. Alternatively, find a
(command)-line tool which can translate HDF5 to geotiff or netCDF (e.g.
gdal_translate or ) and then use readGDAL or the ncdf package.

Paul

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