Hi Jannis, although I don't know how you'd do that with RNetCDF, with the ncdf package it's pretty easy:
ncid = open.ncdf( 'file.nc' ) nvars = ncid$nvars for( ivar in 1:nvars ) print(paste("var number",ivar,"is named", ncid$var[[ivar]]$name, "and has units", ncid$var[[ivar]]$units )) Regards, --Dave Jannis wrote: > Dear List, > > > does anybody has experience with the RNetCDF package? I manage to open a > connection and copy data from a ncdf file but would need a way to > automatically retrieve variable names (ideally all of them from one file) > and units from the file. > > > Any ideas? > Jannis > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- David W. Pierce Division of Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography Scripps Institution of Oceanography (858) 534-8276 (voice) / (858) 534-8561 (fax) dpie...@ucsd.edu ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.