Can't identidy variable names in location_slice

[evolecolgroup]

Can't identidy variable names in location_slice

[dramanica]

What version of terra are you using? We have seen this problem before on Macs when terra is not downgraded to version 1.6.3. If you have a more recent version, can you please downgrade it as suggested on the pastclim website and report back?
For your information, the problem stems from the fact that recent versions of terra on CRAN have not been compiled with support for netcdf. terra is then unable to properly read variables from any .nc file, not just the ones in pastclim. Those // in front of variable names are the giveaway; there are no such //, it's a problem with gdal installations that lack netcdf support
A bit more discussion on this issue from StackOverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73599324/r-terra-gdal-version-incorrect-cannot-read-nc-gdal-error-4
Let me know if downgrading terra fails to fix the problem, and we can try to dig a bit deeper.

[SamPassmore]

Hello. Thank-you for the quick response.
My apologies I did not realize the downgrading related to this error, I thought it was due to the error listed at the end of the readme page.

Downgrading terra did not immediately solve my problem, but uninstalling both terra and pastclim, and re-installing with the aforementioned versions fixed the issue.

[dramanica]

Hi @SamPassmore, no worries, glad it got resolved easily. It is a rather annoying bug, but hopefully it will get fixed on CRAN soon.