[R-sig-Geo] reading and reformatting hdf files within raster

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Is it is possible to read a MODIS HDF "layer" directly with a raster()
> statement?

 Have you tried searching for HDF on CRAN?

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/h5r/index.html

I don't fancy downloading a 196MB MODIS file to find out...

Barry