[R] Missval in netCDF and its handling by the ncdf package

Hi all, I got currently some trouble with missvals in netCDF files: I have a netCDF file, written with an unknown program, which shows via ncdump no fillval or missval for its variables. Within the variables obviously a missval of 9.96921e+36 is used. When I read it into R via the ncdf package

Re: [R] Missval in netCDF and its handling by the ncdf package

bute, and FALSE otherwise. Of > course, you can repeat this for an attribute named "missing_value" instead of > "_FillValue". > > See also the R documentation page for ncdf routine "set.missval.ncdf", which > allows you to change the actual missing va