ncdf4.helpers (version 0.3-7)

Helper Functions for Use with the 'ncdf4' Package

Description

Contains a collection of helper functions for dealing with 'NetCDF' files opened using 'ncdf4', particularly 'NetCDF' files that conform to the Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions .

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0.3-7

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LGPL-2.1

Maintainer

Lee Zeman

Last Published

March 13th, 2025

Functions in ncdf4.helpers (0.3-7)

nc.get.compress.dims

Get X and Y dimension variables for reduced (compressed) grids

get.f.step.size

Get step size for data

nc.get.variable.list

Get a list of names of data variables

nc.get.var.subset.by.axes

Gets a data subset in the place described by the named list of axes

nc.get.dim.names

Get a list of names of dimensions

nc.get.dim.for.axis

Get dimension corresponding to a given axis

nc.get.dim.bounds.var.list

Get a list of names of dimension bounds variables.

nc.get.proj4.string

Gets the proj4 string for a file

nc.conform.data

Conform data to dimension order and structure of output

nc.get.time.multiplier

Gets conversion factor for time scale given units

get.split.filename.cmip5

Splits up a CMIP5 filename

nc.get.dim.axes.from.names

Infer dimension axes from names of dimensions

nc.get.dim.axes

Get dimension axes

nc.is.regular.dimension

Determine if a dimension is regular

nc.make.time.bounds

Creates time bounds for a time series

nc.put.var.subset.by.axes

Puts a data subset in the place described by the named list of axes

ncdf4.helpers

ncdf4.helpers: helper functions for NetCDF files.

nc.get.time.series

Returns time axis data as PCICt for a file

nc.copy.atts

Copy attributes from one variable in one file to another file

nc.get.climatology.bounds.var.list

Get a list of names of climatology bounds variables

get.cluster.worker.subsets

Get subsets to be distributed to workers

nc.get.coordinate.axes

Get a list of dimension variables and axes for a variable's coordinate variable