I have never done this, so may be missing something obvious, but can you not use rgdal ? GDAL lists HDF4 as a supported format.
Cheers, Scott On 10-Jan-07, at 14:49, Rick Reeves wrote: > > Greetings: > > This week I am working with HDF format files containing ocean color > imagery (CZCS, SeaWIFS) secured from NASA GSFC, > and would like to bring the image maps into the R environment. > > One way I have done this is to use the SeaDAS software to extract a > 2-dim binary floating point matrix (from the HDF file) > and write it to disk, then use R pixmap() to read it in to a > vector. This works, but one loses all of the image attributes > contained in the HDF header. Now, it would be good to read the HDF > file directly into R, capturing the header attributes. > > I have tried the R HDF5 library routine hdf5load(), which seems to > read the new .hdf5 format > but NOT the older .hdf format (I tried, unsuccessfully) > > Question is: Has anyone developed a technique to read HDF files > with R? > > Thanks in advance, Rick R > > -- > Rick Reeves > Scientific Programmer / Analyst > National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis > UC Santa Barbara > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.nceas.ucsb.edu > 805 892 2533 > > <reeves.vcf> > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
