[Rcpp-devel] prospects for NetCDF?

[Michael Sumner]

I've outlined a wishlist item for a modern Rcpp wrapper for the NetCDF
library:

https://github.com/RConsortium/wishlist/issues/3

I'd appreciate any advice from those with Rcpp expertise and knowledge of
wrapping external libraries.

Does NetCDF look particularly difficult to work with? Or, would it be
reasonably straigtforward, but quite a lot of work?

It's perhaps a bit wishful to expect anyone with those skills to offer to
be involved, but it would be really helpful to at least have some thoughts
- even just "that's crazy hard" or "way too easy", or anything in between.

NetCDF is a general multi-dimensional array format, with metadata and
slice-based index read - in modern forms (v4.0) it's based on HDF5. It's
used for many kinds of data, but sees majority use (probably) in remote
sensing and climate modelling.

Thank you.

Cheers, Mike.
-- 
Dr. Michael Sumner
Software and Database Engineer
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston Tasmania 7050 Australia
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