print.nc: Print Summary Information About a NetCDF Dataset

In RNetCDF: Interface to 'NetCDF' Datasets

Print Summary Information About a NetCDF Dataset

Description

Print summary information about a NetCDF dataset.

Usage

print.nc(x, ...)

Arguments

x	Object of class NetCDF which points to the NetCDF dataset (as returned from open.nc).
...	Arguments passed to or from other methods (not used).

Details

This function prints information about the structure of a NetCDF dataset, including lists of all groups, dimensions, user-defined types, variables and attributes.

The output of this function is similar to the ncdump -h command supplied with the NetCDF C library. One important difference is that array dimensions are shown by print.nc in the order used by R, where the leftmost subscript varies fastest.

Author(s)

Pavel Michna, Milton Woods

References

https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/

Examples

##  Create a new NetCDF dataset
file1 <- tempfile("print_", fileext=".nc")
nc <- create.nc(file1, format="netcdf4")

## Create a group (just because we can!):
grp <- grp.def.nc(nc, "data")

## Create some dimensions, putting one inside the group:
dim.def.nc(nc, "time", unlim=TRUE)
dim.def.nc(grp, "station", 5)

##  Create two variables, putting one inside the group:
var.def.nc(nc, "time", "NC_INT", "time")
var.def.nc(grp, "temperature", "NC_DOUBLE", c("station","time"))

##  Put some attributes
att.put.nc(nc, "NC_GLOBAL", "history", "NC_CHAR", paste("Created on", date()))
att.put.nc(grp, "temperature", "_FillValue", "NC_DOUBLE", -99999.9)
att.put.nc(grp, "temperature", "long_name", "NC_CHAR", "air temperature")
att.put.nc(grp, "NC_GLOBAL", "title", "NC_CHAR", "Data from Foo")

##  Print summary information about the dataset
print.nc(nc)

close.nc(nc)
unlink(file1)

RNetCDF documentation built on Oct. 23, 2023, 9:06 a.m.