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nc_close

Close a netCDF File

Description

Closes an open netCDF file, which flushes any unwritten data to disk. Always close a netCDF file when you are done with it! You are risking data loss otherwise.

Usage

nc_close( nc )

Arguments

`nc`	An object of class `ncdf4` (as returned by either function `nc_open` or function `nc_create`.

Details

Data written to a netCDF file is cached in memory, for better performance. This data is only written out to disk when the file is closed. Therefore, always remember to close a netCDF file when done with it.

Author(s)

David W. Pierce dpierce@ucsd.edu

References

http://dwpierce.com/software

Examples

## Not run: nc <- nc_open("salinity.nc")
## Not run: data <- ncvar_get( nc )	# Read the "only" var in the file
## Not run: nc_close(nc)

ncdf4

Interface to Unidata netCDF (Version 4 or Earlier) Format Data Files

v1.17

GPL (>= 3)

Authors

David Pierce <dpierce@ucsd.edu>

Initial release

2019-10-22