sub-.CFVariableL3b: Extract data for a variable

In ncdfCF: Easy Access to NetCDF Files with CF Metadata Conventions

Extract data for a variable

Description

Extract data from a CFVariableL3b instance, optionally sub-setting the axes to load only data of interest.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'CFVariableL3b'
x[i, j, ..., drop = FALSE]

Arguments

x	An CFVariableL3b instance to extract the data of.
i, j, ...	Expressions, one for each of the two axes of x, that select a number of elements along each axis. i is for the longitude axis, j for the latitude axis, ... (additional named arguments) is invalid as there are only two axes to subset from. If either expression is missing, the entire axis is extracted. The values for the arguments may be an integer vector or a function that returns an integer vector. The range of the values in the vector will be used. See examples, below.
drop	Logical, ignored. Axes are never dropped. Any degenerate dimensions of the array are returned as such, with dimnames and appropriate attributes set.

Details

If all the data of the variable in x is to be extracted, simply use ⁠[]⁠ (unlike with regular arrays, this is required, otherwise the details of the variable are printed on the console).

The indices into the axes to be subset can be specified in a variety of ways; in practice it should (resolve to) be a vector of integers. A range (e.g. 100:200), an explicit vector (⁠c(23, 46, 3, 45, 17⁠), a sequence (⁠seq(from = 78, to = 100, by = 2⁠), all work. Note, however, that only a single range is generated from the vector so these examples resolve to 100:200, 3:46, and 78:100, respectively. It is also possible to use a custom function as an argument.

This method works with "bare" indices into the axes of the array. If you want to use domain values of the axes (e.g. longitude values or timestamps) to extract part of the variable array, use the CFVariableL3b$subset() method.

Scalar axes should not be included in the indexing as they do not represent a dimension into the data array.

Value

An array with dimnames and other attributes set.

Examples

fn <- system.file("extdata",
  "pr_day_EC-Earth3-CC_ssp245_r1i1p1f1_gr_20230101-20231231_vncdfCF.nc",
  package = "ncdfCF")
ds <- open_ncdf(fn)
pr <- ds[["pr"]]

# How are the dimensions organized?
dimnames(pr)

# Precipitation data for March for a single location
x <- pr[5, 12, 61:91]
str(x)

# Summer precipitation over the full spatial extent
summer <- pr[, , 173:263]
str(summer)

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