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RNetCDF
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NetCDF
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The documentation of RNetCDF is based on the "NetCDF User's Guide for C",
and installation of RNetCDF requires linking with the Unidata NetCDF library.
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UDUNITS2
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RNetCDF may be linked with the UDUNITS2 library.
To simplify distribution of RNetCDF in binary form,
data files required by UDUNITS2 are included with RNetCDF,
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NCSA HDF5
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Although the RNetCDF package does not use HDF5 directly,
if statically linked to a build of netcdf with the netcdf4 feature enabled,
it will link in code from HDF5. The license for such code is given below:
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HDF5 (Hierarchical Data Format 5) Software Library and Utilities
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Contributors: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at
the University of Illinois, Fortner Software, Unidata Program Center (netCDF),
The Independent JPEG Group (JPEG), Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler (gzip),
and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
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Portions of HDF5 were developed with support from the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory (LBNL) and the United States Department of Energy
under Prime Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
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California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (UC LLNL).
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(DOE) and The Regents of the University of California (University)
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