r-sig-geo'ers:

I'm trying some random hacks, but was wondering if there is a more
efficient way to import the following file:
ftp://ftp.daac.ornl.gov/data/global_soil/Dunne/data/soilwhc.dat

as a raster().  The file is a fixed width file (width=5) of floating point
values, but had the Arc header stripped off.  A reference file that DOES
work with raster is:

ftp://ftp.daac.ornl.gov/data/global_soil/Dunne/data/dunne_soil.dat
reference_raster <- raster(dunne_soil.dat)
# This has the same number of rows and columns and resolution as
# the file above.

Thoughts on the most efficient way to convert the first file to a workable
raster?

--j

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