Steven, The current version of raster (1.3-11 on CRAN) uses 'ncdf' rather then 'RNetCDF'. The 'ncdf' package is available for OSX.
Then, for a single layer: r = raster('file.nc') r = raster('file.nc', band=10) For all layers: b = brick('file.nc') You may get a warning about the variable that was selected. You can avoid that by explicitly setting the variable you want with the varname=" " argument, e.g., b = brick('file.nc', varname='temperature') I cannot copy to r-sig-mac, as I am not subscribed to it (that's why it is bad practice to send a single message to two mailing lists). Hth, Robert On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM, steven mosher <mosherste...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking for some examples of how to read a NetCDF file with raster > directly. The manual is a bit > terse on the matter. The dats in question is a 3D (lon,lat,time) 72*36, 161 > "bands" > > On the MAC I get a request to load RNetCDF, which is not available in > Binary. I found a few mails > on geting RNetCDF onto the MAC (and udunits as well) > > Failing a direct method, I suppose, I can just read the file into an array > and the turn that into a multi band > raster.. > > TIA > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo