Re: [netcdfgroup] API for removing data variables?

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] API for removing data variables?
• From: David William Pierce <dpierce@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 20:17:02 -0800

Maybe it would be easier if you conceptualize the task instead as one
of copying only a subset (one) variable from the source file to the
destination file? In that event, R and NCO can accomplish the task
easily, and I assume python as well. If you have a particular API in
mind and don't see how to copy just one variable, feel free to ask
about that.

Regards,

--Dave


On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have a usecase which seems most easily satisfied by taking a netCDF
> (classic) file and ripping out all but one data variable, before
> adding a few layers to that datavar, and writing to a new file. (All
> the data variables share the same coordinate variables and their
> values, which are just integer indices.) However I'm not seeing tool
> support for *removing* data (or other) variables. This may be because
> I'm not very experienced--am I missing something? Note my platform is
> linux, and by "tool support" I mean either something I can either run
> commandline (e.g., NCO) or from a shell-like environment (e.g., the
> python or R REPLs).
>
> TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@xxxxxxxxx>
>
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David W. Pierce
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