problem with TRMM on Windows and Linux

[mdsumner]

Happy to explore this, for now just the details.

On Windows.

TRMM(timeExtent = timeExtent, bbox = bbox)
latMax of bbox is out of the maximum extent [-50,50], new latMax of bbox is modified as follows: latMax = 50

Beware this function was tested on a unix machine. If you are not using a unix machine your results could be wrong. Please report any problem to [email protected], thanks!
Error in .local(.Object, ...) : 
  Unable to open ...3B43.*.
No error

Error in .rasterObjectFromFile(x, objecttype = "RasterBrick", ...) : 
  Cannot create a RasterLayer object from this file.

[mdsumner]

On Debian.

 bbox <- list(lonMin=-10,latMin=48,lonMax=5,latMax=62)
>
> # Define a temporal extent
> timeExtent <- seq(as.Date('2012-01-01'), as.Date('2012-03-31'), by='months')
> TRMM(timeExtent = timeExtent, bbox = bbox)
latMax of bbox is out of the maximum extent [-50,50], new latMax of bbox is modified as follows: latMax = 50
Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  :
  Failed EPSV attempt, exiting
> devtools::session_info()
Session info -------------------------------------------------------------------
 setting  value
 version  R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
 system   x86_64, linux-gnu
 ui       X11
 language (EN)
 collate  en_AU.UTF-8
 tz       Australia/Hobart
 date     2016-10-11

[cvitolo]

I think the problem was due to a platform-dependent file path.
This should be now fixed but I could only test it on my ubuntu machine using the example code below.

@mdsumner Could you please check if on your machines the problem persists? Many thanks

# Define a bounding box
areaBox <- raster::extent(-10, 5, 48, 62)
# Define a temporal extent
twindow <- seq(as.Date("2012-01-01"), as.Date("2012-03-31"), by = "months")
# Retreive mean monthly precipitations from 3B43_V7 (based on a bounding box and time extent)
TRMMfile <- TRMM(twindow = twindow, areaBox = areaBox)
library(raster)
plot(TRMMfile)

[mdsumner]

Fine on Windows now, looks good!