How to write data from netcdf file to an excel or text file?

Question

I have a netcdf file that has 6 dimensions:

f=open.ncdf("C:\\BR_Ban.nc")

I read the varible date:

A = get.var.ncdf(nc=f,varid="date",verbose=TRUE)

Then I read the variable Tair as I did for date. I wrote the two variables to two text files. May anyone help me to write both of them to one text file or excel? This piece of code will write only one variable:

write.table(as.double(A),"C:\\folder\\shwon_Br_Ban_flux net.txt")

The problem with this variable date is that I got a text file that looks like this:

"x"
"1"  2004
"2"   1
"3"  0.5
"4"  2004
"5"    1
"6"    1

up to

"157675" 2006
"157676" 365
"157677" 23.5
"157678" 2007
"157679" 366
"157680" 0

As you can see, all in one column "year,hour and day". Is there a way to write the time step "half hourly" in one column, the year in another column and the same for the day?

Answer 1

f <- open.ncdf("C:\\BR_Ban.nc")
A <- get.var.ncdf(nc=f,varid="date")
B <- get.var.ncdf(nc=f,varid="Tair")
write.table(t(rbind(A,B)),file="output.txt")

As mentionned in the summary for the netCDF file, date has 2 dimensions, dimension 1 (the rows) being datedim and dimension 2 (the columns) time_counter, while Tair has also 2 dimensions with land as dimension 1 and time_counter as dimension 2. So to output them together you need first to rbind them since their shared dimension is the columns (time_counter), and then transpose.