Re: pdfxy

Hi Julia,

No, you were a great help. It helps to talk to someone about such things. I
actually decided to do as you now hint: use pdfx and do the 2D pdf line by
line.

I appreciate the exchange of thoughts :-)

/M

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Julia Andrys <juliaandrys@gmail.com>wrote:

> No you're right, you shouldn't have to, or at least you don't when using
> the pdfx function, which is what I use mainly. Possibly pdfxy is differnt
> but I don't see why Sorry Marston, I am out of ideas for you now. Hopefully
> someone else has some suggestions for you.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Marston Johnston <shejo284@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> So you mean I have to adjust my min and max each time? All my arrays will
>> have different min and max. SO what you are saying is that I have to use
>> fspan to find the nbinx value each time?
>> Setting opt@binx_nice = false did not help.
>>
>> /M
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Julia Andrys <juliaandrys@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> It doesn't look like your x variable has a max value of 60 to me:
>>>
>>> xMIN : 0.4511555433273315
>>> xMAX : 13.29794788360596
>>>
>>> So if you set your nbinx and your binx_max accordingly, then you should
>>> get 1.0 spaced bin integers. Have you also tried switching opt@binx_niceto false? I find this tends to work better when I am specifying my own bins.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Marston Johnston <shejo284@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Julia,
>>>>
>>>> I don't think your idea works:
>>>>
>>>> Variable: pdf2
>>>> Type: double
>>>> Total Size: 11040 bytes
>>>> 1380 values
>>>> Number of Dimensions: 2
>>>> Dimensions and sizes: [y | 23] x [x | 60]
>>>> Coordinates:
>>>> y: [ 1.5..23.5]
>>>> x: [0.5582121461629868..13.1908912807703]
>>>> Number Of Attributes: 26
>>>> _FillValue : 9.969209968386869e+36
>>>> nMax : 9925
>>>> nUse : 9925
>>>> nOut : 0
>>>> pcUse : 100
>>>> pcOut : 0
>>>> xMIN : 0.4511555433273315
>>>> xMAX : 13.29794788360596
>>>> binx_center : <ARRAY of 60 elements>
>>>> binx_bounds : <ARRAY of 61 elements>
>>>> binx_bound_min : 0.4511555433273315
>>>> binx_bound_max : 13.29794788360596
>>>> binx_spacing : 0.2141132056713104
>>>> nbinsx : 60
>>>> pcxLoOut : 0
>>>> pcxHiOut : 0
>>>> yMIN : 1
>>>> yMAX : 24
>>>> biny_center : <ARRAY of 23 elements>
>>>> biny_bounds : <ARRAY of 24 elements>
>>>> biny_bound_min : 1
>>>> biny_bound_max : 24
>>>> biny_spacing : 1
>>>> nbinsy : 23
>>>> pcyLoOut : 0
>>>> pcyHiOut : 0
>>>> (0)
>>>> (0) min=0.0100756 max=5.93451
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure how pdfxy creates the bins.
>>>>
>>>> /M
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Julia Andrys <juliaandrys@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Marston,
>>>>>
>>>>> When you call the function, there is the option to specify the number
>>>>> of x and y bins:
>>>>>
>>>>> function pdfxy (
>>>>> x : numeric,
>>>>> y : numeric,
>>>>> nbinx [1] : integer,
>>>>> nbiny [1] : integer,
>>>>> opt [1] : logical
>>>>> )
>>>>>
>>>>> Because you know your max and min values for x and y, just specify the
>>>>> number of bins accordingly to get the bin space you need. So you would
>>>>> specify nbinx = 60 and nbiny = 23.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>>
>>>>> Julia
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Marston Johnston <shejo284@gmail.com
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to control the bin size of the pdfxy function such that
>>>>>> the bin spacing is set to 1.0. But I'm at a loss of how to do that. Does
>>>>>> anyone know how to do this through the opt variable?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> opt = True
>>>>>> opt@fraction = True
>>>>>> opt@binx_min = 0. ;minimum value for the x bin boundary.
>>>>>> opt@biny_min = 0. ;minimum value for the y bin boundary.
>>>>>> opt@binx_max = 60. ;maximum value for the x bin boundary.
>>>>>> opt@biny_max = 23. ;maximum value for the y bin boundary.
>>>>>> opt@binx_nice = True ; let NCL calculate "nice" bin boundary
>>>>>> values x
>>>>>> opt@biny_nice = True ; let NCL calculate "nice" bin boundary
>>>>>> values y
>>>>>>
>>>>>> results in:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Variable: pdf2
>>>>>> Type: double
>>>>>> Total Size: 5000 bytes
>>>>>> 625 values
>>>>>> Number of Dimensions: 2
>>>>>> Dimensions and sizes: [y | 25] x [x | 25]
>>>>>> Coordinates:
>>>>>> y: [1.46..23.54]
>>>>>> x: [1.24..12.76]
>>>>>> Number Of Attributes: 26
>>>>>> _FillValue : 9.969209968386869e+36
>>>>>> nMax : 9925
>>>>>> nUse : 3955
>>>>>> nOut : 5991
>>>>>> pcUse : 39.84887
>>>>>> pcOut : 60.36272
>>>>>> xMIN : 0.4511555433273315
>>>>>> xMAX : 13.29794788360596
>>>>>> binx_center : <ARRAY of 25 elements>
>>>>>> binx_bounds : <ARRAY of 26 elements>
>>>>>> binx_bound_min : 1
>>>>>> binx_bound_max : 13
>>>>>> binx_spacing : 0.48
>>>>>> nbinsx : 25
>>>>>> pcxLoOut : 60.14106
>>>>>> pcxHiOut : 0.01007557
>>>>>> yMIN : 1
>>>>>> yMAX : 24
>>>>>> biny_center : <ARRAY of 25 elements>
>>>>>> biny_bounds : <ARRAY of 26 elements>
>>>>>> biny_bound_min : 1
>>>>>> biny_bound_max : 24
>>>>>> biny_spacing : 0.92
>>>>>> nbinsy : 25
>>>>>> pcyLoOut : 0
>>>>>> pcyHiOut : 0.2115869
>>>>>> (0)
>>>>>> (0) min=0.0100756 max=4.10076
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>> Marston
>>>>>>
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