# rust-netcdf
[](https://travis-ci.org/mhiley/rust-netcdf)
[](https://crates.io/crates/netcdf)
Medium-level [NetCDF](http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/) bindings for Rust
## Status
Supported:
* Variables
* Normal Dimensions
* Attributes
* Subgroups
* Open/Append/Create modes
* Reading from memory (read only for now)
* Unlimited dimensions
Not (yet) supported:
* user defined types
* string variables
All variable data is read into a 1-dimensional buffer, with the resulting layout with the last variable varying the fastest.
The data can also be read into an [ndarray](https://github.com/rust-ndarray/rust-ndarray).
## Building
rust-netcdf depends on libnetcdf. The Travis build runs on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial and installs libnetcdf via apt, which results in netcdf v.4.4.0. rust-netcdf is not widely tested on other versions of netcdf.
You can build the library and run the tests via Docker like this:
```
docker build . -t rust-netcdf
docker run -it --rm rust-netcdf
```
## Documentation
Some examples of usage can be found in the [tests/lib.rs](tests/lib.rs) file. The documentation can also be found using `cargo doc`.
## License
Licensed under either of
* Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
### Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any
additional terms or conditions.