What is loadeR?

loadeR is an R package for climate data data access and manipulation powered by NetCDF-Java (trough the rJava package). It allows:

• Reading local and remote (OPeNDAP) climate datasets (NetCDF, Grib, HDF, etc.)
• Creation of catalogs
• Integration with the User Data Gateway (UDG)
• Basic data maniputation, homogeneization and spatiotemporal collocation.

Find out more about this package (including installation information) in the loadeR's WIKI.

Other packages of the loadeR bundle

• loadeR.ECOMS extends loadeR by providing homogenized access to seasonal and decadal forecast datasets from the ECOMS initiative. More information in the ECOMS-UDG web.

• loadeR.2nc provides support for exporting to NetCDF.

• downscaleR is an R package for empirical-statistical downscaling of daily data, including bias correction techniques.

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Since November 2015, this package supersedes the data loading capabilities of package downscaleR.