Autoplot Application (#{tag})

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Autoplot allows plotting of data from many data sources, including remote CDF files and HAPI servers. Datasets are identified with URIs, and by the URI's extension, data are loaded into the internal data model. Data are then displayed by guessing the rendering method and axis ranges to provide a reasonable, useful view of the data. Data can then be additionally processed with other operations like smooth and FFT, and Jython scripting provides a capable programming environment.

This is the Autoplot v2021a branch. This is an update to the production version containing bugfixes and minor new features. Java 8 is now required.

Run with 1GB of memory to support 32-bit Java versions, and run off of ci-pw build server: autoplot_1GB.jnlp

Bugfixes (2022-06-29 r26708):

• 28: Corrections to DataPointRecorder, which sorted numbers alphabetically, not numerically.

Older Bugfixes (2022-06-29 r26708):

• 2467: old kludge which assumed CDF DEPEND with 2 records of min and max prevented use of a PSP dataset. Thanks, Sadie!
• 2449: other cases where append fails because timetags are different backing. Thanks, Sadie!
• check to see if findex failure is due to non-repeating or decreasing and report more precise error.
• 2464: completions for /tmp/convert/*.dat?column= produced runtime error because of old miscalculation.
• 2459: command-line autoplot with --script couldn't pass arguments to script because of unnecessary quotes.
• 2465: Interval Average of PSP/EPILo data showed that rank 2 time-varying DEPEND_1 was not handled property in some rank-reducing routines. Thanks, Jon N!
• 2462: dataset('2021-02-02') returns a rank 0 dataset instant, not rank 1 range.
• 2463: detect where erg_hep_l2_omniflux has energy[2,n] to represent bins. Thanks, Allison!
• 2456: corrections to fix Run Batch when colorbar is changed and overlays used. Thanks, Sadie!
• filenameProvidesContext checks to see if the hours offset really looks like it is hours. Thanks, Sadie!
• getProperty('os.family') is returning null on some platforms.
• URI vap+orbit:rbspa-pp&timerange=tr would be mangled in the editor if the timerange contained colons.
• Annotation had code which assumed the x axis units were not time location units.
• lblx extention triggered PDS source, but parts within the source were still checking for a .xml extension.
• 2456: progress bar left hanging after runtime error because RunLaterListener runtime error would block later listeners.
• 2455: misuse of iterator in Jython setItem sloppiness would result in hang. Thanks, Bill!

Features:

• Add withinSet function which returns one where the data is within a set of values.

Less recent features:

• 784 QDataSet AVERAGE_TYPE metadata introduced and used in interpolate.

Known issues:

• see Source Forge
• Bugs often have a four-digit ID and can be reviewed with https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/bugs/<ID>/.
• Features typically have a three-digit ID and can be reviewed with https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/feature-requests/<ID>/.

This completes the feature set for the new production branch. No major features will be added before branching this version. A production branch will be started in a couple of weeks, and the "Start Autoplot" link at the top of autoplot.org will run this version. Feedback on the function and quality of this release is greatly appreciated!

Data is input from:

• ASCII files (.dat,.txt)
• CSV files (.csv)
• Binary files (.bin)
• CDF files(.cdf)
• Excel spread sheets (.xls)
• das2Streams (.d2s or .das2Stream)
• ViRBO's TSDS server
• CDAWeb data server (vap+cdaweb:)
• das2servers (vap+das2server:)
• QStreams (.qds), QDataSet on a das2Stream
• Plasma Wave Group das2 Server
• NetCDF files (.nc,.ncml)
• HDF5 files (.h5,.hdf5)
• DODs servers (.dds)
• Cluster Exchange Format files (.cef)
• Fits Format Files
• Images (.jpg, .png, .gif)
• Wav audio files (.wav)

This is not complete, and limitations include:

• Quantities of rank 3 dimensionality (e.g. flux(Time,Energy,pitch) are plotted by slicing.
• Quantities of rank 4 dimensionality (e.g. flux(Time,Energy,azimuth,sector) are plotted by slicing twice.

autoplot.org is the wiki website, and contains more information than this launch page.