Yes, i know its a Grads file ..! i have attached the control file and the grid file can be downloaded frm the link given below!
http://www.4shared.com/file/cuSG-05j/rf05_1975.html I have not used Grads before, still i was able to read in the control file and get the basic info.! but, i am not sure about the package required for .grd files in R - will i be able to read a Grads grid file into R??? Thank u all, Mahalakshmi Quoting Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>: > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:32 AM, <govin...@msu.edu> wrote: >> >> >> Can someone let me know what package and function should be used to >> read *.grd files in R? I tried readGDAL, open.ncdf functions already >> which threw errors for file format mismatch. > > A file extension is not a good indication of what the file type is. I > could rename any file 'foo.grd' and it could be anything. > > Show us what readGDAL gives as an error message, and then we might be > able to help. readGDAL tries to guess the file format, maybe it > guessed right but the file is corrupted. > > Where did the file come from? Can we get it? Can you open it in a > text editor? Do you have a unix/linux box so you can run the command > 'file' on it? > > Barry >
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