grib_open: Open GRIB files

In nawendt/gribr: Read GRIB Files

Open GRIB files

Description

grib_open opens a GRIB file for reading or writing and returns a GRIB class object.

Usage

grib_open(file)

Arguments

file	character string. A path to a GRIB file.

Details

grib_open is the constructor function for the S3 GRIB class object. The GRIB object is list with three elements: file, handle, and isMultiMessage. file is the path to the opened file, handle is an externalptr to the file in memory, and isMultiMessage is a logical indicating if there are multiple entries in any of the file's messages.

Value

Returns a GRIB class object: see 'Details'.

See Also

grib_close

Examples

g <- grib_open(system.file("extdata", "lfpw.grib1", package = "gribr"))
g # shows status
grib_close(g)

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