AIPS.jl

Julia interface for running AIPS tasks programmatically. Think ParselTongue, but lighter and in Julia.

Quick start

using AIPS

# automatically downloads a minimal set AIPS binaries, no tasks
setup!()

# downloads individual task binaries when needed
task = AIPSTask("FITLD";
    datain="/data/myobs.fits",
    outname="MYOBS", outclass="UV", outdisk=1,
    clint=0.25,
)

result = run(task)
# (outputs = Dict{String, Any}(...), messages = AIPSMessage[...])

Adverbs are passed as keyword arguments; file paths (like datain) are mapped to AIPS disk areas automatically.

Installation

using Pkg
Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/JuliaAPlavin/AIPS.jl")

setup!() handles downloading the AIPS distribution on supported platforms, no manual setup is required.