getFileInfo: List all CMIP5 files in a directory tree

In RCMIP5: Tools for Manipulating and Summarizing CMIP5 Data

Description

List all CMIP5 files in a directory tree, parsing their filenames for information like experiment, model, and variable names.

Usage

getFileInfo(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)

Arguments

path	string root of directory tree
recursive	logical. Should the listing recurse into directories?

Details

For more information on CMIP5 filename structure and data description, see http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/data_description.html

Value

data.frame containing the following parsed from file names:

filename	Full filename, including path
variable	File variable
domain	File domain
model	Model that produced this file
experiment	File experiment
ensemble	File ensemble
time	year (and often month) range of file
size	File size, in kilobytes

See Also

checkTimePeriod

Examples

getFileInfo()
getFileInfo('.', recursive=FALSE)

RCMIP5 documentation built on May 1, 2019, 6:28 p.m.