Thanks Sage. I’m getting similar results: the *.nc files are ca 60% the size of the *.csv files. But still worth it to save storage.
I’m familiar with the Erddap Advanced Search options and I use this to search and download specific datasets.
Ian, if you’re reading this, the R-script keeps failing after downloading 4-6 datasets. It doesn’t always fail on the same file though. Here is the error message it gives:
Error in download.file(file_url, destination, mode = “wb”) :
download from ‘https://gliders.ioos.us/erddap/tabledap/cp_379-20140415T1315-delayed.nc?’ failed
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(file_url, destination, mode = “wb”) :
URL ‘https://gliders.ioos.us/erddap/tabledap/cp_379-20140415T1315-delayed.nc’: status was ‘Failure when receiving data from the peer’
-Bob