RPLOT

an Interactive Utility to Access TRANSP Output

Elemantary Capabilities

1. GENERATE TABLE OF CONTENTS (LIST OF SELECT NAMES)
2. GRAPH SCALAR FUNCTIONS AND MULTIGRAPHS VS. TIME
3. GRAPH FUNCTIONS OF TIME AND ADDL. COORDINATE
4. LIST CONTENTS OF SELECT MULTIGRAPH PACKAGES
5. ADD/DELETE A SCALAR OR PROFILE MULTIGRAPH PACKAGE
6. DRAW A PROFILE MULTIGRAPH
7. View COMMENTS and/or examine NAMELIST values
8. QUIT (OR "Q")
9. CREATE INDEX OF GRAPHS DRAWN SO FAR
10. CHANGE THE NAME (OR ABBREV.) OF A FUNCTION
11. REDEFINE NON-TEMPORAL X AXES FOR PLOTTING
12. TABLE OF CONTENTS OUTPUT OPTIONS (subset selection and output redirection for options (1) and (4))
13. PLOT THE PLASMA MHD EQUILIBRIUM
14. SET SCALING DEFAULTS
15. READ/EXTRACT UFILES TIME SERIES DATA FOR SCALAR MULTIPLOT
16. [CALCULATOR] -- COMPUTE USER F(t), F(x,t), PLOT DATA
17. [COMPARE] multigraph of single item, multiple runs.
18. "A" [ALL_PLOT] generate script to plot ALL available items.

Table of TRANSP Contents

• To generate Table of Contents of your own run:
  Write 1-D and 2-D Function names to file:
  rplot t y <TOK>.<YY> q <runid> 1 q q > <file>
  • Print 1-D and 2-D Function names:
    rplot t y <TOK>.> q <runid> 1 q q | lpr
  • Print Multigraph Package names:
    rplot t y <TOK>.<YY> q <runid> 4 q q | lpr

To Run from a Browser via Elvis:

To Run at PPPL:

• module load ntcc
  (Note: you must first load a compiler)
• define environment TERMINAL_TYPE
  • tcsh users
    • setenv TERMINAL_TYPE xterm
    • if you use Xtc, do insted: source $TRANSP_LOCATION/.xtcrc_csh
  • bash users
    • export TERMINAL_TYPE=xterm
    • if you use Xtc, do insted: . $TRANSP_LOCATION/.xtcrc
• identify a run:
  you either enter
  • the <tokamak>.<year> and the 8 char runid
    or
  • the mdsplus pulse id (CMOD)
• run the program:
  • rplot
    you will get a menu prompting you.
  • to read from PPPL disk:
    rplot d $ARCDIR/<tok>/<yy> q <runid>
    e.g.: rplot d $ARCDIR/NSTX/05 q 117899A02
  • to read from PPPL MDSplus Server:
    rplot t y <tok>.<yy> q <runid>
    e.g.: rplot t y NSTX.05 q 117899A02
  • to read from NON-pppl MDSplus Servers:
    • For convenience, define the environment variables MDS_TRANSP_SERVER and MDS_TRANSP_TREE
      e.g.: export MDS_TRANSP_SERVER=_atlas.gat.com
      e.g.: export MDS_TRANSP_TREE=transp
    • to read from CMOD MDSplus Tree
      rplot t s <Server> t <tree> n <MDS pulse number> q
      e.g.(if environment is defined): rplot t n 1070713005 q
    • to read from other MDSplus Tree:
      rplot t s <server> t <tree> y <tok>.<yy> q <runid>
      e.g.(if environment is defined): rplot t y D3D.09 q 136886A01
  • NSTX sample session
    
    
  • Exapmple to produce a template:
    at any time at a prompt enter:
    >filename
    from now on rplot will record your session in "filename".tmi till you enter:
    <

           e.g.:
           rplot t y NSTX.05 q 117899A02
           >my_template
              :
              :
           < 

    To run:
    rplot t y NSTX.09 q 133046P05 @my_template
    
    
  • Example for using a template with Variable Names: TokYr & RunId:

           To use Variable Names, enter 1st the Variable Name (in singel quotes)
           at re-prompt enter the actual Value: 
           e.g.:
           'RunId'
           117899A02
    

    See Template sample session
    To run:
    rplot @my_template/TokYr=NSTX.09/RunId=133046P05

To produce a PostScript file

• Use Xtc
• or
  • Define the Environment Variable PLOT
    e.g.: export PLOT=",foo.plt-ps"
    this will produce output to screen and to file foo.plt_ps
  • To actually write the data to the file, type "d" to "upause" after the beep.
    See SGLIB Help "Logical Variables".

Customize RPLOT

Set your Mdsplus Server and Tree by defining the environments:
• MDS_TRANSP_SERVER
  e.g.: setenv MDS_TRANSP_SERVER atlas.gat.com
• MDS_TRANSP_TREE
  e.g.: setenv MDS_TRANSP_TREE transp
• RPLOT_CACHE
  if you are looking at the same run several times, set RPLOT_CACHE=TRUE

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