<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Does it need to be NetCDF, or can you settle for HDF5? There are a couple of HDF5 packages available.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 16, 2016, at 8:55 PM, Michael Sumner <<a href="mailto:mdsumner@gmail.com" class="">mdsumner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I've outlined a wishlist item for a modern Rcpp wrapper for the NetCDF library: <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/RConsortium/wishlist/issues/3" class="">https://github.com/RConsortium/wishlist/issues/3</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'd appreciate any advice from those with Rcpp expertise and knowledge of wrapping external libraries. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does NetCDF look particularly difficult to work with? Or, would it be reasonably straigtforward, but quite a lot of work? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers, Mike. </div></div><div dir="ltr" class="">-- <br class=""></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">Dr. Michael Sumner</span><br class=""><span class="">Software and Database Engineer</span><br class=""><span class="">Australian Antarctic Division</span><br class=""><span class="">203 Channel Highway</span><br class=""><span class="">Kingston Tasmania 7050 Australia</span><br class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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