OpenGrADS Documentation

Information on installation, end-user documentation and implementation details for developers can be found in the pages below.

1. GrADS
   • Classic GrADS documentation at COLA, including tutorial. This is the place to learn about GrADS and its built in capabilities. All OpenGrADS documentation assumes that you have some familiarity with GrADS.
2. Interfaces
   • Perl Interface to GrADS. How to install and use GrADS from Perl, including tutorial.
   • Python Interface to GrADS. How to install and use GrADS from Python, including tutorial.
   • JyGrADS: Java and Matlab interface to GrADS through Jython. A PyGrADS based package, uses Jython to provide a Java interface to GrADS, and through Java, an interface to Matlab(tm).
   • PHP Interface to GrADS. How to install and use GrADS from PHP.
   • TCL Interface to GrADS. How to install and use GrADS from TCL.
3. Extensions and Scripts
   • User Defined Extensions. How install user contributed functions and commands, and information on how to write your own.
   • Lats4D. GrADS script for subsetting, reformatting and regridding.
   • Proposal for User Defined Extensions in GrADS v2.0
4. Manual Pages.
   • Technical reference for specific functions and commands; this is not the place to get started.
5. Building Notes for those wishing to compile GrADS from sources.
   • Supplemental Libraries (Supplibs). A central repository of external packages needed for building GrADS.
   • Latest releases:
     • Building the OpenGrADS Bundle from Sources (Versions 2.0 and 1.10)
     • Building GrADS under NestedVM from Sources (Version 2.0 for Java)
   • Previous releases:
     • Building GrADS v1.9 from Sources
   • Building Wgrib2 from Sources
6. Packaging Notes
   • Directory Structure: The OpenGrADS Bundle
   • Packaging GrADS for Windows
   • Packaging GrADS for Mac OS X
   • Packaging GrADS for Linux/Unix
7. Installation Notes
   • Installing GrADS on Linux/MacOS X/Unix
     • OpenGrADS Bundle v2.0.a5 and v1.10
     • Previous releases: GrADS v1.9.0-rc1
   • Installing GrADS on Microsoft Windows:
     • Version 1.9
     • Version 2.0
   • Installing GrADS v2.0 for Java
8. Software Engineering
   • PyTests: GrADS Test Suite. A Python based test suite for GrADS; this is a generic test suite for several aspects of GrADS, not only the Python interface.
   • Development Guidelines. Configuration management and other guidelines for developers contributing to OpenGrADS.
   • GEPs: GrADS Enhancement Proposals