R

Obtaining R
- kernel: R-project
- windows GUI: Tinn-R and RStudio
- packages: CRAN
  - ncdf4 has no official windows binaries, but they can be found here
Generic documentation and tutorials
- Advanced R programming by Hadley Wickham
- R for data journalists (http://www.scoop.it/t/r-for-journalists)
- Matlab-Python-R_comparison of functions/commands
Plot tips
- R gallery
- Plotting backgroundmaps in R
- Include Sparklines in data tables in R (pretty cool)
Download Rijkswaterstaat data directly from waterbase (Waterbase does not exist anymore)
- Download Rijkswaterstaatdata from Waterbase
Download Rijkswaterstaat data directly from the data distribution layer
- Get RWS DDL data
Access WFS using R
Access WCS using R
- As GeoTIFF

netCDF/OPeNDAP tutorials

- Plot NetCDF grids in R
- Scanfish from OpenEarth OPeNDAP
- Accessing netCDF/OPeNDAP data with R (simple, download files first)
- Creating a netCDF file with R (more)
- Accessing netCDF/OPeNDAP data with R (ppt)
- OPeNDAP subsetting with R
- Reading NetCDF directly from OPeNDAP using R
- Sprint session "NetCDF functionality in the R statistical software" (2010 sept. 14 NIOO) by Tom van Engeland & Karline Soetaert
  - course slides
  - course documentation
  - course example script
  - course example data (upcoming)
- Simple bindings to version 2 of Unidata's udunits library (udunits2)
  - note requires separate installation of 'lib-udunits2'
  - for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (2015-07-10) use
    sudo apt-get install libudunits2-dev
R packages for accessing climate data:
- https://ram-n.github.io/weatherData/ # used this and it works ok
- https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RWeather/index.html # never tried it
- https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RNCEP/index.html # bit complicated but works
- https://ropensci.org/packages/ # search here for ‘climate meteorological or weather’

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