nc2time {oceanmap}

reads and converts the time variable of a netcdf-file ('.nc'-file) or ncdf4-object as as.Date-object

Description

reads and converts the time variable of a netcdf-file ('.nc'-file) or ncdf4-object as as.Date-object.

Usage

nc2time(nc,varname)

Arguments

nc

character string indicating the filepath to a netcdf-file ('.nc'-file), or a ncdf4-object.

varname

character string indicating the name of the time vaiable of the netcdf-file.

Author(s)

Robert K. Bauer

Examples

path <- system.file("test_files", package="oceanmap")
nfile <- Sys.glob(paste0(path,'/herring*.nc')) # load sample-'.nc'-files
head(nc2time(nfile))

library('ncdf4')
nc <- nc_open(nfile)
head(nc2time(nc))