Elizabeth,

Are you using a raster stack or a raster brick?

i've written out 'bricks" successfully. Robert (maintainer) is Out of the
office for a bit
if you havent tried it using a brick, give that a go.


On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Elizabeth Crisfield <eac16@psu.edu> wrote:

> I have read a 10 band .nc file into R using *open.ncdf* and
> *get.var.ncdf*and I've read each band into a raster format e.g.
> *raster(data[,,1])*. I used *aggregate* to upscale the data, and now I want
> to write it back out to netcdf format. For some reason, I can write each
> band out separately (e.g. *writeRaster(newdataband1, "newdataband1",
> format="CDF")* but if I *stack* the data first, I get an error when I try
> to
> write the stack out to netcdf. The error says "*CDF is not a supported file
> format. See writeFormats()"*. Sure enough, *writeFormats()* gives me a long
> list of formats that are enabled, and CDF is not in the list.
>
> ?
>
> I am running R (R 2.11.1 GUI 1.34 Leopard build 64-bit (5589)) on Mac OS X
> (10.6.4) with up-to-date packages of ncdf and Raster. I've also installed
> netcdf through MacPorts and the libraries are in /opt/local rather than
> /usr/local (I'm wondering if I have a library or path problem?)
>
> How can I get the writeRaster to add CDF to the list of writeFormats?
>
> Is there another way to reconstruct this netcdf file from the 10 raster
> layers in R? (*create.ncdf*?) Alternatively, since I think I have them
> written out to separate netcdfs I could maybe bind them back together using
> another utility outside of R?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Elizabeth
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