Re: [R-sig-Geo] how to handle large datafile in R?

2009-04-07 Thread Robert Hijmans
Anwesha, Assuming you want the data timestep by timestep (but you can adjust it for all timesteps, pixel by pixel) you can do something like the below. I copied it straight from ?get.var.ncdf library(ncdf) ncdata<-open.ncdf("air.2m.1950-1999.nc") lon<-get.var.ncdf(ncdata,"lon") lat<-get.var.ncd

Re: [R-sig-Geo] how to handle large datafile in R?

2009-04-07 Thread Anwesha Chakrabarti
i'm really sorry for that. let me state the problem once again with the codes. graphics.off() > library(ncdf) > ncdata<-open.ncdf("air.2m.1950-1999.nc") > lon<-get.var.ncdf(ncdata,"lon") > lat<-get.var.ncdf(ncdata,"lat") > time<-get.var.ncdf(ncdata,"time") > dat<-get.var.ncdf(ncdata,"air") Error:

Re: [R-sig-Geo] how to handle large datafile in R?

2009-04-07 Thread Roger Bivand
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Anwesha Chakrabarti wrote: hi all, i want to read a .netcdf file in R. the file contains one variable that has three dimensions lon, lat and time. and the data consists of a 192x94 matrix of the variable. whenever i'm trying to open the file i'm getting the following error ms

[R-sig-Geo] how to handle large datafile in R?

2009-04-06 Thread Anwesha Chakrabarti
hi all, i want to read a .netcdf file in R. the file contains one variable that has three dimensions lon, lat and time. and the data consists of a 192x94 matrix of the variable. whenever i'm trying to open the file i'm getting the following error msg "can not allocate vector of size 1.2gb"! so i gu