Can SAS open Netcdf (.nc) file?

[hua]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to use SAS open an Netcdf file? Or if SAS has this function?

Thanks!

Best,

Hua

[DanZ]

This seems hokey, and there is probably a more elegant method out there, but you might be able to use R as a translator of sorts. Here are some links that I pulled up.

Import into R as .netcdf:
http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/recipes/?q=recipes/How-to-Read-Data-in-netCDF-Format-with-R

Export from R into .sas7bdat:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5476826/can-anyone-help-me-write-a-r-data-frame-as-a-sas-data-set

Probably easiest to convert to csv and import from there.