On Dec 16, 2016, at 8:55 PM, Michael Sumner <mdsumner at gmail.com> wrote:
I've outlined a wishlist item for a modern Rcpp wrapper for the NetCDF library:
https://github.com/RConsortium/wishlist/issues/3 <https://github.com/RConsortium/wishlist/issues/3>
I'd appreciate any advice from those with Rcpp expertise and knowledge of wrapping external libraries.
Does NetCDF look particularly difficult to work with? Or, would it be reasonably straigtforward, but quite a lot of work?
It's perhaps a bit wishful to expect anyone with those skills to offer to be involved, but it would be really helpful to at least have some thoughts - even just "that's crazy hard" or "way too easy", or anything in between.
NetCDF is a general multi-dimensional array format, with metadata and slice-based index read - in modern forms (v4.0) it's based on HDF5. It's used for many kinds of data, but sees majority use (probably) in remote sensing and climate modelling.
Thank you.
Cheers, Mike.
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Dr. Michael Sumner
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Australian Antarctic Division
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Kingston Tasmania 7050 Australia