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R: Save NetCDF as a CSV

ByKonrad Hafen September 6, 2019September 6, 2019

Sometimes certain analysis may require data in a tabular format (as opposed to the gridded format of NetCDF). This tutorial will take you through how to convert a NetCDF (or other raster/gridded data) to an R data frame, which can then used for analysis or saved as a CSV file. Read the NetCDF file First,…

NetCDF | R

R: Get data from a NetCDF

ByKonrad Hafen August 28, 2019September 6, 2019

List the data attributes Accessing the var property of our netCDF varialbe will list the data attributes for the netCDF file. The output shows us this dataset has one data attribute with the name ‘data’. Which is contained within the names property of var. Calling the names property directly after the attributes() call gives the same result. We can get the name of specific…

NetCDF | R

R: Open NetCDF and view metadata

ByKonrad Hafen August 28, 2019September 6, 2019

Let’s get right into the code. First, make sure you have the ncdf4 package installed. This requires the netcdf4 and hdf5 software to be installed. netcdf4 and hdf5 are not r packages. There are various sources for installing these on your machine. I found this guide to work well for Ubuntu. Once all dependencies are installed we can load…