v0.13.0

NCDatasets v0.13.0

Diff since v0.12.17

NCDatasets uses now the DiskArray package which required some API changes.
In general, the array API of NCDatasets is now more similar to base Julia in particular:

• ncvar[range_indices] = scalar should now be ncvar[range_indices] .= scalar
• ncvar2D[:] flattens the data in the 2D NetCDF variable ncvar2D. To read the full array one need to use ncvar2D[:,:] or Array(ncvar2D) (similarly for 3D, 4D... arrays).
• Accessing an array out of bounds, new returns a DimensionMismatch exception (previously a NCDatasets.NetCDFError exception was returned)
• To grow a NetCDF variable with unlimited dimension, the corresponding index of left-hand side of the assignment cannot be a colon, but should be a range. For example if ncvar is a NetCDF variable where the 2nd dimension is unlimited, ncvar[:,:] = zeros(2,3) should now be replaced by ncvar[:,1:3] = zeros(2,3)

Merged pull requests:

• DiskArrays for Variable's (#205) (@tcarion)
• Fix checksum docstring (#213) (@navidcy)
• Correction of typos (#216) (@keduba)
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for "DiskArrays" at version "0.3" (#229) (@github-actions[bot])

Closed issues:

• NCDatasets.jl v0.11+ does not work on PowerPC (#116)
• For compressed netcdf, extremely low speed in cdo operation (#206)
• LoadError: UndefVarError: NetCDFError not defined (#207)
• [Suggestion] easier creation of time axis (#208)
• [enhancement] support empty array var[ [] ] (#209)
• Using NCDatasets.jl in R (#210)
• No warning message when passing wrong keywords to defVar (#212)
• @select not work for 4d array (#214)
• NCDatasets fails due to build issue on Julia 1.10 (#215)
• Significant performance gap between NetCDF.jl and NCDatasets.jl (#218)
• Write data fails when the number less than typemax(Datatype) (#226)
• Return type Matrix{Union{Missing, Float32}} (#227)