On 5 February 2014 at 19:19, Sebastian Gibb wrote: | On Wednesday 05 February 2014 14:37:00 Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > Also, there are three packages on CRAN interfacing the NetCDF library: | > | > RNetCDF | > ncdf4 | > ncdf | > | > I never know which one is maintained and good as I don't use NetCDF-store | > data. Maybe you do and RNetCDF is the clear winner -- if not take a quick | > look at the other two please. | | ncdf is obsolete and superseded by ncdf4. Both ncdf4 and RNetCDF provide a good | interface to NetCDF.
Ack. | I prefer RNetCDF because CRAN ships windows binaries of it, too. For reasons | unknown to me RNetCDF is built for windows but ncdf4 is not. Generally the author(s)/maintainer have to extra effort. For two more complicated CRAN packages of mine, we give CRAN static libs [for 32 and 64 bit windows] of the required external library. [ In one case, RQuantLib, we have done so for many years. For another, RProtoBuf, we only did so very recently and a friend / co-author actually cross-built the windows libraries on Ubuntu (and had to try three different g++-mingw versions; apparently only 4.7 worked) ] Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
