I got a netCDF file from a climate group and wanted to aggregate the data. The file summary looks like this
library(ncdf) nc=open.ncdf("NCEP_prec_1949_58.nc") > nc [1] "file NCEP_prec_1949_58.nc has 4 dimensions:" [1] "Time Size: 14608" [1] "lat Size: 99" [1] "lon Size: 199" [1] "DateStrLen Size: 20" [1] "------------------------" [1] "file NCEP_prec_1949_58.nc has 1 variables:" [1] "float Prec[lon,lat,Time] Longname:yearly accumulated precip Missval:1e+30" I tried to get the variable values using this command > xx=get.var.ncdf(nc) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 2.1 Gb This file has six hourly data for the 199 x 99 points for 10 years. I wanted to aggregate this data into a monthly scale. I tried used a simple code like this for (i in 1:noofdays) { for (j in 0:3) { x= get.var.ncdf(nc,v1,start=c(1,1,(i+j)),count=c(199,99,1)) temp_data_mat=temp_data_mat+x } for (x1 in 1:199) { for (x2 in 1:99) { data_mat_89_99[x1,x2,ctr]=temp_data_mat[x1,x2] } } ctr=ctr+1 temp_data_mat=matrix(0,ncol=99,nrow=199) } I didnt think it worked... can u suggest me some other way ... I could not use the start and count properly -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reading-a-large-netCDF-file-using-R-tp3510762p3510762.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.