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I want to get quantiles of each cell across layers on a stacked set of RasterLayers on R.

My RasterStack looks like this

dimensions : 721, 1440, 1038240, 18628 (nrow, ncol, ncell, nlayers)

I run the following line to get a layer whose values are 25th and 75th percentiles for each cell

qtiles <- raster::calc(RasterStack, fun=function(x){quantile(x, probs= c(0.25,0.75), na.rm=TRUE)})

I get the following error:

Error in R_nc4_open: NETCDF: HDF error
Error in ncdf4::nc_open(x@file@name, suppress_dimvals = TRUE) :
Error in nc_open trying to open file U:path/file1.nc (return_on_error= FALSE )

I suspect it's because of the number of layers since when I try it on a subset of netcdf files, it works fine, and I also have no problems in opening file1.nc separately.

Any suggestions?

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I would recommend moving your analysis to the terra package as raster is being depreciated. You can read in your ncdf raster stack using terra::rast, there are no longer different object classes (ie., raster, brick, stack) for single or multiband rasters. Then use the terra::quantile function to calculate the percentiles. If you are still receiving an error along the lines of what you posted, you likely have a corrupt layer in the NetCDF file.

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  • thanks, terra did make things much faster! One weird thing is that if I compute quantiles in probs= c(0.9,0.95,0.99) I get what I want. But if I compute quantiles in probs= c(0.01,0.05,0.1), I obtain three layers of zeros anywhere (which is impossible). Any idea?
    – gcoder
    Feb 2 at 8:32

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