Re: Question for Users: Interactive Mode

From: Carl Schreck <carl.schreck_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Tue Dec 21 2010 - 11:04:20 MST

Yes, the issue with contributed.ncl was something either in a previous
version or a bad installation on my end.

I'll have to try playing around with the interactive mode more...

    Carl

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Rob Nicholas <
rnicholas@atmos.washington.edu> wrote:

> Carl,
>
> I use NCL in interactive mode on a regular basis -- mostly for
> debugging methods for scripts that I'm writing but sometimes just for
> quick calculations, simple plots, or mucking around with NetCDF files.
> The interface definitely has limitations (it would be nice to have
> better command line completion and a built-in documentation) but the
> ease of dealing with NetCDF files makes it my first choice over Matlab
> or Octave in many circumstances.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean about not being able to load
> "contributed.ncl" more than once -- are you getting some kind of
> error? I haven't encountered any problems with the latest version
> (5.2.1).
>
> ~Rob
>
> --
> Robert Nicholas
> Department of Atmospheric Sciences
> University of Washington, Box 351640
> Seattle, WA 98195-1640
> rnicholas@atmos.washington.edu
> tel 206-438-3509, fax 206-543-0308
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Carl Schreck <carl.schreck@noaa.gov>
> wrote:
> > I was just curious how many people use the interactive mode in NCL? I
> know
> > it's quite popular in other languages like matlab and IDL, but I've
> always
> > used almost exclusively as a scripting language.
> > Part of why I don't is because I usually need contributed.ncl, and you
> can
> > only load that once. That makes it more a little difficult to call
> scripts
> > in interactive mode, but there are ways around it. Anyway, just
> > wondering...
> > Thanks,
> > Carl
> > --
> > Carl J. Schreck III, PhD
> > Postdoctoral Research Associate
> > Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS-NC)
> > NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
> > 151 Patton Avenue
> > Asheville, NC 28801
> > Tel: 828-257-3140
> > carl.schreck@noaa.gov
> > http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/carl/
>

-- 
Carl J. Schreck III, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS-NC)
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
151 Patton Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
Tel: 828-257-3140
carl.schreck@noaa.gov
http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/carl/

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