html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/709#issuecomment-461833981,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/709,461833981,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ2MTgzMzk4MQ==,33062222,2019-02-08T15:11:41Z,2019-02-08T15:11:41Z,NONE,"@shoyer Sure, I found a way around by using cdo but I can revisit it and provide more details","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,125386091
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/709#issuecomment-461546376,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/709,461546376,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ2MTU0NjM3Ng==,33062222,2019-02-07T18:38:58Z,2019-02-07T18:38:58Z,NONE,"I'm facing the same problem of the unexpected encoding parameter 

`big_ds.to_netcdf(out_dir + 'V250hov_N2000_2018_v4'  + '.nc', encoding={'V':{'_FillValue': -999.0}, 'time':{'units': ""seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00""}})
`
The error is as follows:
`  File ""./R_metric.py"", line 61, in <module>
    big_ds.to_netcdf(out_dir + 'V250hov_N2000_2018_v4'  + '.nc',encoding={'V':{'_FillValue': -999.0}, 'time':{'units': ""seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00""}})
  File ""/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/work_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/core/dataset.py"", line 1222, in to_netcdf
    compute=compute)
  File ""/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/work_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/backends/api.py"", line 718, in to_netcdf
    unlimited_dims=unlimited_dims)
  File ""/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/work_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/backends/api.py"", line 761, in dump_to_store
    unlimited_dims=unlimited_dims)
  File ""/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/work_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/backends/common.py"", line 266, in store
    unlimited_dims=unlimited_dims)
  File ""/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/work_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/backends/common.py"", line 304, in set_variables
    name, v, check, unlimited_dims=unlimited_dims)
  File ""/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/work_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/backends/netCDF4_.py"", line 450, in prepare_variable
    unlimited_dims=unlimited_dims)
  File ""/usr/local/anaconda3/envs/work_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/backends/netCDF4_.py"", line 225, in _extract_nc4_variable_encoding
    ' %r' % (backend, invalid))
ValueError: unexpected encoding parameters for 'netCDF4' backend:  ['units']
`

However, the same syntax works when I tried writing out a different file. I'm using xarray version 11.0","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,125386091
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/709#issuecomment-172672626,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/709,172672626,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE3MjY3MjYyNg==,12929592,2016-01-18T22:37:23Z,2016-01-18T22:37:23Z,NONE,"please ignore the last comment/issue
as soon as I added 'float32' rather than just 'float' it worked fine!
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,125386091
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/709#issuecomment-172668790,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/709,172668790,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE3MjY2ODc5MA==,12929592,2016-01-18T22:16:59Z,2016-01-18T22:16:59Z,NONE,"I am receiving the same error as #709 when trying:

ds.to_netcdf( 'myncfile.nc', encoding={'Temp': {'dtype': 'float'}})

and I am using xray v 0.6.1  - which is the version the 'what's new' changes appear under.

Do I need a different version? am I writing it incorrectly?
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,125386091