idlutils is a collection of IDL utilities useful for astronomical applications, developed by an assortment of folks over the years. Various pipelines for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and other projects rely on tools from this product.
Also included within idlutils is a version of the Goddard utilities maintained by Wayne Landsman, copied here for convenience but also to establish versioning. Many thanks to the intrepid authors of those utilities!
Documentation of individual routines can be found below:
To download the latest tagged version of idlutils, use svn ("subversion"). On most Unix machines you should be able to execute:
svn export http://www.sdss3.org/svn/repo/idlutils/tags/v5_4_2 idlutils
To list other available tags, use the command:
svn ls http://www.sdss3.org/svn/repo/idlutils/tags
If you want to keep up-to-date on the latest, evolving version (the "trunk" in SVN parlance), then execute:
svn co http://www.sdss3.org/svn/repo/idlutils/trunk idlutils
Afterward, an "svn up" in the idlutils directory will update your working copy.
These access points are read-only. If you want to develop or add to the idlutils software you must be an SDSS-III collaborator. See the SDSS-III svn tutorial for further instructions.
After exporting or checking out the code, set the environmental variable IDLUTILS_DIR to the location of your idlutils directory. Then set the variables:
export PATH=$IDLUTILS_DIR/bin:$PATH export IDL_PATH=+$IDLUTILS_DIR/pro:$IDL_PATH export IDL_PATH=+$IDLUTILS_DIR/goddard/pro:$IDL_PATH
Of course, you should put those commands into your ".bash_profile" file where appropriate.
To build the code, then execute:
cd $IDLUTILS_DIR evilmake all
It should build the documentation as well as all of the C libraries.
Special cases: For EUPS-users (you know who you are), there is an idlutils.table file in the ups directory. For users of the SDSS-III "sdss3tools" product, a full export/make/install can be executed with "sdss3install".
No warranty is expressed or implied or anything regarding this software.