Re: Bug#737533: ITP: r-cran-rnetcdf -- GNU R package that provides an R Interface to NetCDF Datasets
On 5 February 2014 at 14:20, Andreas Tille wrote:
| Hi Sebastian,
|
| please consider maintaining the package in Debian Science team.
|
| Moreover please enhance the long description since not every reader
| knows about netcdf and it just helps people who don't if they realise
| tht this package is not for them without doing additional research.
Also, there are three packages on CRAN interfacing the NetCDF library:
RNetCDF
ncdf4
ncdf
I never know which one is maintained and good as I don't use NetCDF-store
data. Maybe you do and RNetCDF is the clear winner -- if not take a quick
look at the other two please.
Cheers, Dirk
| Kind regards and thanks for your ITP
|
| Andreas.
|
| On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 03:59:08PM +0100, Sebastian Gibb wrote:
| > Package: wnpp
| > Severity: wishlist
| > Owner: Sebastian Gibb <sgibb.debian@gmail.com>
| >
| > * Package name : r-cran-rnetcdf
| > Version : 1.6.1-2
| > Upstream Author : Pavel Michna <michna@giub.unibe.ch>
| > * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RNetCDF/index.html
| > * License : GPL>=2
| > Programming Lang: R
| > Description : GNU R package that provides an R Interface to NetCDF Datasets
| >
| > This package provides an interface to Unidata's NetCDF library functions
| > (version 3) and furthermore access to Unidata's UDUNITS calendar conversions.
|
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