dim.CFAxis: Axis length
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dim.CFAxis

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Axis length

Description

This method returns the lengths of the axes of a variable or axis.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'CFAxis'
dim(x)

Arguments

`x`	A `CFVariable` instance or a descendant of `CFAxis`.

Value

For a CFVariable instance in argument x, a named vector of axis lengths, excluding any scalar axes. For a CFAxis descendant instance in argument x, the length of the axis.

Examples

fn <- system.file("extdata", "ERA5land_Rwanda_20160101.nc", package = "ncdfCF")
ds <- open_ncdf(fn)
t2m <- ds[["t2m"]]
dim(t2m)
dim(t2m$axes[["time"]])

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