RCMIP5 (version 1.0)

getFileInfo: List all CMIP5 files in a directory tree

Description

List all CMIP5 files in a directory tree, parsing their filenames for information like experiment, model, and variable names.

Usage

getFileInfo(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)

Arguments

path

string root of directory tree

recursive

logical. Should the listing recurse into directories?

Value

• data.frame containing the following parsed from file names:
• filename
  Full filename, including path
• variable
  File variable
• domain
  File domain
• model
  Model that produced this file
• experiment
  File experiment
• ensemble
  File ensemble
• time
  year (and often month) range of file
• size
  File size, in kilobytes

Details

For more information on CMIP5 filename structure and data description, see http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/data_description.html

See Also

checkTimePeriod

Examples

getFileInfo()
getFileInfo('.', recursive=FALSE)