[R-sig-Geo] HDF4 in Windows

[Jan Verbesselt]

Hi Jonathan,

I am using linux/mac (gdal) but did you try:
http://fwtools.maptools.org/  for windows?

Maybe you can call FWtools (gdal functions) via the:
> system() in R?

Alternatively you can use the MODIS MRT tool (windows/linux/mac) to convert to an R raster readable format.
https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/tools/modis_reprojection_tool

then use gdaltranslate() e.g. to *tif and the raster package to read the geotif.

Let us know if this helps because this will be useful for many students here,
J

Dr. ir. Jan Verbesselt
Centre for Geo-information
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
T: + 31 317 48 52 68
http://bfast.r-forge.r-project.org/
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/jan-verbesselt/


On 24/02/2012, at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

> R-sig-geo'ers:
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone has made any progress getting hdf4 files
> working (querying + extracting data) in any R package on *Windows*.  I
> have some MODIS and MASTER files which use HDF that I need to open up
> and would prefer to not use either an external program or the Linux
> version of R.  Thoughts?
> 
> --j
> 
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