= Overview of the `ecomsUDG.Raccess` package  

Since the [http://www.r-project.org/ R language] has been adopted for some key tasks in the EUPORIAS and SPECS projects (including the development of comprehensive validation and statistical-downscaling packages), the `ecomsUDG.Raccess` is envisaged as a user-friendly, R-based interface to the ECOMS User Data Gateway, enabling authentication and remote access to the different hindcast datasets currently available.

The `ecomsUDG.Raccess` package relies on the `rJava` package as an interface to the powerful capabilities of the [http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/netcdf-java-4/index.jsp Unidata's netCDF Java library], and extends the spatial classes and methods of the package `sp` for an efficient handling of geospatial data in R.


  * [wiki:./Homogeneization Data Homogeneization]
  * [wiki:./Requirements Previous requirements and R dependencies]
  * [wiki:./Authentication Authentication]
  * [wiki:./Examples Examples]
  * [wiki:./History History and Versions]
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