Re: Bug#737533: ITP: r-cran-rnetcdf -- GNU R package that provides an R Interface to NetCDF Datasets
On 5 February 2014 at 19:19, Sebastian Gibb wrote:
| On Wednesday 05 February 2014 14:37:00 Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > 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.
|
| ncdf is obsolete and superseded by ncdf4. Both ncdf4 and RNetCDF provide a good
| interface to NetCDF.
Ack.
| I prefer RNetCDF because CRAN ships windows binaries of it, too. For reasons
| unknown to me RNetCDF is built for windows but ncdf4 is not.
Generally the author(s)/maintainer have to extra effort. For two more
complicated CRAN packages of mine, we give CRAN static libs [for 32 and 64
bit windows] of the required external library. [ In one case, RQuantLib, we
have done so for many years. For another, RProtoBuf, we only did so very
recently and a friend / co-author actually cross-built the windows libraries
on Ubuntu (and had to try three different g++-mingw versions; apparently only
4.7 worked) ]
Dirk
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