How to extract variable names from a netCDF file in R?
I am writing a function in R to extract some air quality modelling data from netCDF files. I have the Package "ncdf" installed. In order to allow other users or myself to choose what variables to extract from a netCDF file, I would like to extract the names of all variables in the file, so that I can present in a simple list rather than just print.ncdf() the file to give too much information. Is there any way of doing it? I tried unlist() to the var field of the ncdf object but it seemed that it returned the contents as well... I googled and searched stack* overflow * but didn't seem to find