RNetCDF (version 1.9-1)

att.delete.nc: Delete a NetCDF Attribute

Description

Delete a NetCDF attribute.

Usage

att.delete.nc(ncfile, variable, attribute)

Arguments

ncfile

Object of class "NetCDF" which points to the NetCDF dataset (as returned from open.nc).

variable

ID or name of the attribute's variable, or "NC_GLOBAL" for a global attribute.

attribute

The name of the attribute to be deleted.

Details

This function deletes a NetCDF attribute from a NetCDF dataset open for writing.

References

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/

Examples

# NOT RUN {
##  Create a new NetCDF dataset and define two dimensions
nc <- create.nc("att.delete.nc")

dim.def.nc(nc, "station", 5)
dim.def.nc(nc, "time", unlim=TRUE)

##  Create two variables, one as coordinate variable
var.def.nc(nc, "time", "NC_INT", "time")
var.def.nc(nc, "temperature", "NC_DOUBLE", c(0,1))

##  Put some attributes
att.put.nc(nc, "temperature", "missing_value", "NC_DOUBLE", -99999.9)
att.put.nc(nc, "NC_GLOBAL", "title", "NC_CHAR", "Data from Foo")

##  Delete these attributes
att.delete.nc(nc, "temperature", "missing_value")
att.delete.nc(nc, "NC_GLOBAL", "title")

close.nc(nc)
# }