[Rcpp-devel] prospects for NetCDF?

2016-12-16 Thread Michael Sumner
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

Re: [Rcpp-devel] prospects for NetCDF?

2016-12-16 Thread Sean Davis
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 wrote: > > I've outlined a wishlist item for a modern Rcpp wrapper for the NetCDF > library: > > https://github.com/RConsortium/wishlist/issues

Re: [Rcpp-devel] prospects for NetCDF?

2016-12-16 Thread Michael Sumner
On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 at 13:34 Sean Davis 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

Re: [Rcpp-devel] prospects for NetCDF?

2016-12-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 16 December 2016 at 21:34, Sean Davis wrote: | Does it need to be NetCDF, or can you settle for HDF5? There are a couple of | HDF5 packages available. Yep. Also, Rcpp is not that opionated about other libraries. The net result is "what you make it". Maybe the discussion about this should b