Hi All:
Netcdf now has the option of creating or reading a file entirely in memory, a
nice option to have. I am wondering if there is any way to do sort of the
inverse. Some web libraries allow for a pure binary download of a file into
memory, so what I have sitting there is essentially a binary image of the
netcdf file. Is there any way to open that image without writing to disk?
As an example, the R httr library allows this. I can for example download to
memory a netcdf file from ERDDAP, and if I then do a binary save in httr and
then read it back in using the ncdf4 package, it all works great. But it
would be even better if I could skip the extra steps, and “open” the image in
ncdf4 directly (ncdf4 btw can do whatever the netcdf libraries can do, so it
is a question of the base libraries).
Thanks,
-Roy
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