Re: [R-sig-Geo] Spatial3dArray - coordinates method

2009-11-19 Thread Edzer Pebesma
No problems; sp in csv now has this, the next release will have it. Torleif Markussen Lunde wrote: Hi To read netcdf data (or any other gridded spatial time data) I find it convenient to define new classes Spatial3dArray and Spatial4dArray. setClass(Spatial3dArray,

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Spatial3dArray - coordinates method

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Sumner
Wow, this is great - I was thinking about this just yesterday. Torleif: do you have an opinion on which NetCDF path is the most useful for R with sp? RNetCDF or ncdf? GDAL is workable but takes extra effort to build and then reconstruct 3d/4d from 2d bands. (I use Windows mostly) I use the

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Spatial3dArray - coordinates method

2009-11-19 Thread Torleif Markussen Lunde
Hi Mike At the moment I have written wrapper functions around ncdf. As in get.var.ncdf you can subset which area to read, and which (continuous) time dimensions you want to read. At the moment the functions (to correctly return time, lat and long) are limited to output from the WRF-model