https://github.com/pdlporters/perl5-pgplot

Perl PGPLOT wrapper
https://github.com/pdlporters/perl5-pgplot

perl pgplot plotting

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Perl PGPLOT wrapper

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pdlporters/perl5-pgplot
• Owner: PDLPorters
• License: other
• Created: 2016-03-18T18:23:13.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-17T19:31:12.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-18T20:31:56.992Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: perl, pgplot, plotting
• Language: Perl
• Homepage: https://p3rl.org/PGPLOT
• Size: 321 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: CHANGES
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
PGPLOT module for Perl

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Karl Glazebrook

karl_pgplot at mac dot com

Last update to this file: Apr 10th 2006

This module allows the use of the the PGPLOT graphics library from the

popular Perl scripting language. PGPLOT makes it very easy to process

and plot data using the powerful file and text manipulation facilites

built in to Perl.  Perl provides a superset of the features of the

useful UNIX utilities awk and sed and is the `Swiss-Army Chainsaw' of

UNIX programming.

Because Perl is a scripting language a program can be changed and rerun

to instantly see the effect on a plot.  This makes program development

a lot faster and much more fun than when using PGPLOT from fully

compiled languages such as C or FORTRAN. Users of MONGO and SM will be

familiar with this style of programming. Perl also allows you to create

advanced World Wide Web page features and/or routinely do system

management tasks (Perl handles regular expressions, files and sockets

with equal ease).

PGPLOT is a very popular library for plotting astronomical data. (As a

glance through any issue of ApJ or MNRAS will confirm.) I have always

found that with PGPLOT I could produced far nicer and more complex

plots than I could with MONGO but it was always harder to use because

it had to be done from C or FORTRAN. SM is a nice package, but the

language is primitive in comparison with Perl and it is not free

software.

The PGPLOT module for Perl is free software and provides a complete

Perl interface to all of the PGPLOT library functions. It builds

against the PGPLOT C/FORTRAN libraries.

The core module is available from The Comprehensive Perl Archive 

(CPAN) network in the directory 

http://search.cpan.org/search%3fmodule=PGPLOT

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Installation instructions - see the file INSTALL

Problems - see the file HELP

News - see the file CHANGES for new features/bug fixes.

NOTES FOR LUT TABLES

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The colour tables were taken from STARLINK's GAIA distribution, where they

have the GNU copyleft. Further information on STARLINK and GAIA can be found

via http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/ and http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/~pdraper/.