This folder contains the latest draft of the
PDL Book updated for the PDL-2.006 release.

If you are new to PDL, it is highly recommended!


The "Example Data" folder contains the data files
you need to work through the code examples in the
First Steps with PDL chapter.

You will also need to install the following modules
from CPAN:

  PDL::Graphics::Simple

and at least one of

  PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot
    Install from CPAN.  Uses the gnuplot
    program which needs to be on your system.

  PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT
    Will build with the core PDL distribution
    if you have the PGPLOT module and library
    installed.

  PDL::Graphics::PLplot
    Should build with the core PDL distribution
    if you have the PLplot graphics library
    installed.

  PDL::Graphics::Prima
    Install from CPAN.  Depends on the Prima
    GUI Toolkit.  Provides native-perl
    modern style graphics for perl/PDL.