OPeNDAP access with R
The package ncdf4 (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ncdf4/index.html) can access remote OpeNDAP data services. If you use Windows, the author has a binary package on his site. Also, if you want a GUI that works with R and allows you to visually select the space-time slice you want, try the Environmental Data Connector for R (http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/products/EDC/EDCdownloads.html) -Roy
On Dec 13, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Phil Wiles wrote:
I am in the process of converting from Matlab to R, but a major sticking point for me at the moment is accessing data via OPeNDAP. After several hours of searching, I found that other people have discussed this functionality in the past, but it does not appear to have yet been developed. One programmer, Luke Miller, has managed a work-around by downloading ascii data from an OPeNDAP site ( http://lukemiller.org/index.php/2011/02/accessing-noaa-tide-data-with-r/), but direct access to the netcdf files would reduce data download requirements greatly. I'm sure this must be a common requirement, particularly among earth scientists - perhaps they are all still using Matlab. Does anyone have have a solution? Or maybe I am just not proficient enough at finding solutions on the R-network... Thanks in advance for your time, Phil. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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