Hello I am trying to download data sets from the 1 km Resolution UK Composite Rainfall Data from the Met Office Nimrod System
Eg CEDA Archive Web Browser <https://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-nimrod/data/composite/uk-1km/2004> /badc/ukmo_nimrod/data/composite/uk-1km/2004 I can download an individual file (there are lots for each year) as a .gz.tar and then it appears as a TAR file in the directory I am using. I have then used the instruction untar() (targeted on the correct directory) and what this produces is about a dozen these files which are labelled as .gz files. They appear in the same folder as the original TAR folder but as R files (ie although they have .gz in the name they have the R icon next to them as do any R progs which I have). I can’t open them though as R progs (which I don’t really think they can be) and trying to just takes me back to the R studio interface. I’ve tried -- read.table (gzfile ("metoffice-c-band-rain-radar_uk_200404062250_1km-composite.dat.gz")) but that just gives a load of error messages and I haven’t found any other way of opening them as .gz files. I’m rather baffled – can anyone make any suggestions? Thanks Nick Wray [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
