[R-sig-Geo] reading .grd files

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Swagath <swagathnavin82 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I  downloaded a .grd file from
> http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1413/gisdata/data/NAMrad_U.grd and would
> like to open it in R. Can anyone please tell me how to open .grd type
> files in R. I tried to read with raster, ncdf and also rgdal, but couldnt.
>
> Thanks a lot for your time.
>

 "I tried ... but couldn't" is not very helpful. What functions did
you try? Did you get an error message? Or the wrong data? Show us!

 I'd try now, but I can't. (Mostly because I should get off to work
and a 9Mb download will make me late).

Barry