Section: 5.11 Other APIs for netCDF

5.11 Other APIs for netCDF

Other APIs for netCDF have been contributed and made available for MATLAB, IDL, and R.

MATLAB is an integrated technical computing environment that combines numeric computation, advanced graphics and visualization, and a high-level programming language. Versions 7.7 and later of MATLAB have built-in support for reading and writing netCDF data. It's also possible to call netCDF Java library methods from MATLAB, so using it provides the advantages of the Java interface.
IDL (Interactive Data Language) is a commercial scientific computing environment that combines mathematics, advanced data visualization, scientific graphics, and a graphical user interface toolkit to analyze and visualize scientific data. IDL supports data in netCDF format.
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Three R netCDF interfaces are available: the ncdf package, RNetCDF, and ncvar.