[R] netcdf

[Frank Aebly]

Hi All,
I'm very knew to R.  I downloaded and am running it on my redhat so 
that I can use the clim.pact package.  Everything is downloaded and 
installed correctly.  When trying to read a netcdf file from the 
NCEP/NCAR reanalysis dataset using retrieve.nc I keep getting errors 
that the number of dimensions are wrong.

If I use
x.1 <- retrieve.nc("geopothgt.nc")
I get the above error.
this file is a subset created from the NCEP website with only the 500 
mb level

I've tried both
force 365.25=TRUE
daysayear=365.25
  one at a time, and without these arguments and I still get the same 
error

I also tried to use retrieve.nc with the whole data set and I get the 
message that data is in months when time units are set to days. Set 
time unit to month.  But I haven't been able to find in the 
documentation what the values are for t.unit.
I've tried
t.unit=month
t.unit="month"
t.unit=MONTH
t.unit="MONTH"
all of these result in a return of "unused argument t.unit"
I'm apparently not entering the correct value for t.unit, but I can't 
find a list of options anywhere

Any help?

Thanks
Frank Aebly