Rcost: Cost 733 WLK Classification in R

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Returns the time or forecast time information from a ncdf4 connection. Developed for some ECMWF forecasts, time information is stored as hours since 1900-01-01 wherefore init is required to compute forecast steps.

1 2	## Basic usage datetimeinfo(nc,init)

`nc`	Open `ncdf4` connection.
`init`	`Date`, `POSIXt`, or `character` which can be converted into a `POSIXt` object.

Returns a data.frame with 3 columns. init contains the init datetime, valid is the time for which the forecast is valid, and step is the forecast step or lead time.

Reto Stauffer

## Not run: 
# Open NetCDF connection
nc <- nc_open("costgrib/ECMWF_cost_sfc_201111180000.nc")
# Get time information
datetimeinfo(nc,"2011-11-18")
# Close NetCDF connection
nc_close(nc)

## End(Not run)