[R-sig-Geo] Problem in reading .grd file using raster package

[Soumen Dey]

Tim,
I really appreciate for the clarification about the .grd file encoding. I
will try to convert it somehow to .flt or something else. If you find
anything useful kindly pass through.

Soumen

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Tim Appelhans <tim.appelhans at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Soumen,
> ratser uses .grd (+.gri) file endings for it's own file format. That has
> nothing to do with Geosoft .grd files, apart from the fact that the file
> endings are identical. My guess is if gdal is not able to read it, you will
> still need to convert it somehow before getting it into R.
>
> Tim
>
>
> On 07.11.2015 10:17, Soumen Dey wrote:
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> I saw that conversation. Using montage viewer (as suggested by Barry) I
> couldn't convert into an .flt file. Some error occurred. The montage viewer
> does not specify what error initiated it. But in anyway raster should read
> a .grd file. But in this case it isn't.
>
> Soumen
>
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Tim Appelhans <tim.appelhans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Morning,
>> a quick google search "geosoft read in r" returns this mailing list
>> conversation from 2.5 years ago
>>
>> http://r-sig-geo.2731867.n2.nabble.com/reading-grd-files-td7583427.html
>>
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> On 07.11.2015 04:11, Soumen Dey wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a .grd file on rainfall data (sharing the file link below). It
>>> is a Geosoft
>>> grid format file. The following error I encountered when I tried to read
>>> that using 'raster' package.
>>>
>>>
>>> require(raster)
>>>>
>>> Loading required package: raster
>>> Loading required package: sp
>>>
>>> x<-raster("rf_1984.grd") Error in .local(.Object, ...) : `C:\Users\Soumen
>>>>
>>> Dey\Desktop\rf_1984.grd' not recognised as a supported file format. Error
>>> in .rasterObjectFromFile(x, band = band, objecttype = "RasterLayer", :
>>> Cannot create a RasterLayer object from this file.
>>>
>>>
>>> Can anybody can give any suggestions regarding this and help me reading
>>> this file ?
>>>
>>>
>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3Mnscd1GGfkd2JkNzk4ODE0ZEE/view?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time.
>>>
>>> Soumen
>>>
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> Environmental Informatics
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> Raum 00A08
> 35032 Marburg (Paketpost: 35037 Marburg)
> Germany
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