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I'm working with the ncdf package, and I'm seeing a behavior which I am unsure whether it is a bug or a feature. I am creating a variable, which I make with the precision of "byte" and also set a missing value, When I put into this variable, all my NA values are put in properly as the missing value. However, when I read it back, I get the missing value rather than NA.

.../* number of dimensions in variable */ /* This argument is created automatically by S+'s .C for pointers=T variables */ char **vartype) /* character string describing S object type */ { ... *varlen = dimval = (long *)S_alloc(ndims,sizeof(long)); ... } S+ call: ... vardims <- integer(0) # Length of each dimension vartype <- "" # "integer","single","double" etc # get info about variable cdf <- .C("inquire_varid", cdfid = cdfid, varid = varid,...