On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 at 14:00 Michael Sumner <mdsum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 at 13:34 Sean Davis <seand...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does it need to be NetCDF, or can you settle for HDF5? There are a couple > of HDF5 packages available. > > > I find HDF5 is way too raw, so you're always writing abstractions from > scratch - but that might be the best way. I haven't seen an HDF5 R package > that was suitable for the range of inputs yet. > > I see rhdf5 2.18.0 has been on Bioconductor since October 2016: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/rhdf5.html This seems to fit the bill for the limitations I had from NetCDF and the other HDF5 packages. Thanks, Mike. Still, if it were a better target I'd like to level-up and make this a > wishlist for HDF5 that was generally applicable, to the NetCDF4 model and > others (libkea comes to mind). > > Either way experiences with Rcpp and HDF5 or NetCDF are welcome. > > Thanks, Mike. > > 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 > > 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 > > > -- > Dr. Michael Sumner > Software and Database Engineer > Australian Antarctic Division > 203 Channel Highway > Kingston Tasmania 7050 Australia > > -- Dr. Michael Sumner Software and Database Engineer Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway Kingston Tasmania 7050 Australia
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