I Can take a look at it for you, if you want to work with gridded climate data I would suggest raster.
You can visit my blog and I'll do my best to help you. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:30 AM, <govin...@msu.edu> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I am trying to use "clim.pact" package for my work, but since this is the > beginning for me to use gridded datasets in "R", I am having some trouble. > > I want to do seasonal analyses like trends, anomalies, variograms, EOF and > probably kriging too to downscale my 1 degree gridded data to 0.5. So, as > a first step, I compiled my entire dataset (with 25 yeears of daily dataset > which were present as 25 files) into a single netcdf file. > > Then, I downloaded clim.pact to do further analysis, which works but seems > to change dataset's original dimensions' order for "retrieve.nc" > function (i.e. original lon, lat, time order was changed to time, lat, > lon after using this function to get a subset). I am not sure as to why > this happened and not able to get any plots such as box plot (showing > trend in "lon", "lat", "time"), variogram (or variance), correlation > analysis done because of this conversion problem. > > Further, basic "R" functions seem to work well with objects such as > dataframe, matrix ..etc with time in a separate column, and the data > values (precipitation, or temperature) in a separate coulmn with > corresponding station values (lon/lat). So, now I have very little idea > about what I have to do. > > Can anyone suggest me a better (probably more refined way) way than what I > am currently doing to analyze these data? > > -- > Regards, > Mahalakshmi > Graduate Student > #20, Department of Geography > Michigan State University > East Lansing, MI 48824 > [[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 > > [[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
