[NeXus-tech] NXimpatient

[Peterson, Peter F.]

I've seen people here read our HDF5 based NeXus files with IDL. Also, I don't think I've run into somebody doing neutron scattering that has used R in anger.

My big fear is that this is growing the length of NXimpatient. Can most of these examples be in the main manual with NXimpatient having a link for more languages/examples?

P^2

On Oct 26, 2011, at 6:25 PM, Kienzle, Paul A. wrote:

> 1. I added a matlab read/plot example.
> 
> 2. IDL is more involved in that it only provides the low level HDF interface.  We could:
> 
> (a) show the raw HDF calls from IDL, much like the C example,
> (b) have users install nexus and use the napi idl interface, or
> (c) extend Mark's pure IDL wrapper with a similar high level interface as matlab and link to the .pro file from the downloads page.
> 
> The IDL users I talked to locally would certainly prefer (c) which doesn't require a compiled binary.
> 
> 3. Can someone else provide an Igor example?
> 
> 4. Do we want examples from R or Mathematica?
> 
>  - Paul
> 
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> I fixed a few typos and modified the writing section to show how to use h5py to read files and checked it in.
> 
> Similar examples in matlab, IDL and Igor would be useful.
> 
> I recommend moving the HDF C example to the manual in the section on interacting with nexus as HDF --- the impatient are not going to be programming in C.
> 
> A simple example on writing files in pure HDF would also be useful, preferably using a high level api.
> 
> Meanwhile, I'm going to think a little more about the python api, and whether I can leverage off the work that is already in h5py and pytables.
> 
>  - Paul
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