netcdf
brew install netcdfLibraries and data formats for array-oriented scientific data
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/
License: BSD-3-Clause
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/netcdf.json
Formula code: netcdf.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| sonoma | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 4.10.1 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Revision: 1
Depends on:
| hdf5 | 2.2.0 | File format designed to store large amounts of data |
| libaec | 1.1.8 | Adaptive Entropy Coding implementing Golomb-Rice algorithm |
| zstd | 1.5.7 | Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm |
Depends on when building from source:
| cmake | 4.4.5 | Cross-platform make |
Uses from macOS: m4 (build), bzip2, curl, libxml2
Binaries:
nc-config,
nccopy,
ncdump,
ncgen,
ncgen3
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 103,616 |
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| Downloads | 6,582,916 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 4,349 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 23.8× |
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Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 4,346 | 11,571 | 83,157 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 3 | 7 | 30 |
| Installs on Request | 470 | 1,561 | 13,517 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 0 | 3 | 21 |
| Build Errors | 5 |