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fields (version 5.02)

summary.ncdf: Summarizes a netCDF file handle

Description

Provides a summary of the variable names and sizes from the handle returned from netCDF file.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ncdf':
summary(object,...)

Arguments

Details

This function is out of place in fields but was included because often large geophysical data sets are in netCDF format and the ncdf R package is also needed. To date the summary capability in the ncdf package is limited and this function is used to supplement it use. The function is also a a useful device to see how the ncdf object is structured.

See Also

ncdf