Does it need to be NetCDF, or can you settle for HDF5? There are a couple of HDF5 packages available.
> On Dec 16, 2016, at 8:55 PM, Michael Sumner <mdsum...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've outlined a wishlist item for a modern Rcpp wrapper for the NetCDF > library: > > https://github.com/RConsortium/wishlist/issues/3 > <https://github.com/RConsortium/wishlist/issues/3> > > I'd appreciate any advice from those with Rcpp expertise and knowledge of > wrapping external libraries. > > Does NetCDF look particularly difficult to work with? Or, would it be > reasonably straigtforward, but quite a lot of work? > > It's perhaps a bit wishful to expect anyone with those skills to offer to be > involved, but it would be really helpful to at least have some thoughts - > even just "that's crazy hard" or "way too easy", or anything in between. > > NetCDF is a general multi-dimensional array format, with metadata and > slice-based index read - in modern forms (v4.0) it's based on HDF5. It's used > for many kinds of data, but sees majority use (probably) in remote sensing > and climate modelling. > > Thank you. > > Cheers, Mike. > -- > Dr. Michael Sumner > Software and Database Engineer > Australian Antarctic Division > 203 Channel Highway > Kingston Tasmania 7050 Australia > > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
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