Tom Roche Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:54 PM,
>> I need to copy most of a source file, modifying only part, and to
>> write a target file.
David William Pierce Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:13:53 -0800
> I'd advise against doing this. I think it's the wrong approach.
> Better to use 'cp' to make a bit-for-bit copy and then modify that.
OK. I guess I misunderstood other posts I've seen about R having value
semantics: files seem to be the exception.
>> 1 Precisions "int" and "float" not supported by var.def.ncdf(...).
> Sorry, bug. Unfortunately ncdf4 is the new and supported release
Fair enough. I just got access to a box with ncdf4, so will port scripts.
>> 2 Copying I/O API global attributes fails [with]
>> - Error in R_nc_put_att_double:
>> - NetCDF: Name contains illegal characters
>> - [1] "Error in att.put.ncdf, while writing attribute :IOAPI_VERSION
>> - with value 0"
> I think you *don't* want that leading colon (":"). That's the syntax
> of ncdump, not the name of the attribute.
Doh! Thanks.
>> * the target file has *new* coordinate variables for the dimensions.
> ncdf4 provides a mechanism to suppress creating a coordinate variable.
>> 4 Attribute="long_name" is missing for every original/copied data
>> variable.
> Just a bug. Fixed in ncdf4.
on to ncdf4, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com>
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