There are a number of functions in the package to inquire about the file contents. See library(help = RNetCDF).
For example: library(RNetCDF) nc <- open.nc("file.nc") var.inq.nc(nc, 0) $id [1] 0 $name [1] "longitude_U" $type [1] "NC_DOUBLE" $ndims [1] 1 $dimids [1] 1 $natts [1] 0 You can then read from the file with something like this: obj0 <- var.inq.nc(nc, 0) dat <- var.get.nc(nc, obj0$name, start = ...) Going with ncdf or ncdf4 package is probably better ( I just happen to be more familiar with RNetCDF.) Cheers, Mike. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Jannis <bt_jan...@yahoo.de> 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. > -- Michael Sumner Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania Hobart, Australia e-mail: mdsum...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.