thanks for the information! I am trying to work in GrADS nw! 

Thanks,
Mahalakshmi Quoting Rainer Hurling <rhur...@gwdg.de>:

> Hi Mahalakshmi,
>
> On 09.10.2010 19:22 (UTC+1), govin...@msu.edu wrote:
>> 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???
>
> I am afraid there is no direct solution at this time in R. Perhaps 
> the following script can help converting the data?
>
> http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/index.php?title=Recipe-002:_Saving_GrADS_variable_data_to_a_text_file
>
> Hope this helps,
> Rainer
>
>
>> 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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