1D variable support

[josephhardinee]

In processing a file with a mix of 1D and 2D data, it seems I cannot get it to plot a line plot for the 1D data. I did see that line plots were supported for some types after aggregation. It's quite possible I am doing something wrong so generally the workflow I tried was:

1. Picking just time as a coord, and also letting it set the two coords (time and bin in my case).
2. On second tab when I select a 2D variable, it plots. When selecting a 1D variable, the plot button becomes grayed out.

On the axes tab it correctly sets just one axes to time.

I understand it is early in development so I just wanted to clarify if this was me doing something wrong, a bug, or just features that have not yet been developed.

Thanks, I think this will be a great tool and people here are already excited about it.

[martindurant]

We are focusing for the moment on 2+D output, since many of our design decisions are driven by higher-dimensionality data. For example, projection and mesh styling simply make no sense for 1D; we are thinking that there are already many ways to plot 1D data. However, we may re-allow this later (indeed, we accidentally had 1D plots pop up before).

The task for next week is to allow plotting of a "third dimension", i.e., the values of a cube at a particular x/y point. Maybe a 1D plot is just a special case of this, where you don't need to first select a location in 2D space.

[josephhardinee]

Thanks for the quick response and that sounds quite reasonable. We're mostly interested in the 1D so we can use this as kind of a one stop shop replacement for ncview. In anycase thanks for the great software package.
I assume you'd like this issue closed so as to not clutter issue tracker?

[martindurant]

Let's call it a feature request and leave it live for now :)