Conversion and manipulation of units
Description
Conversion of unit specifications between formatted and binary forms, arithmetic manipulation of units, and conversion of values between compatible scales of measurement. The Udunits2 package supports units of physical quantities (e.g., meters, seconds). Specifically, it supports conversion between string and binary representations of units, arithmetic manipulation of units, and conversion of numeric values between compatible units. Udunits2 is used by several other packages at HLRN.
| Default version | 2.1.24 |
| Vendor | |
| Build Date | Oct. 2018 |
| Installation Path | /sw/dataformats/udunits/ |
- The home page is http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits/
. - If an udunits module is loaded an info page is available for the keywords
udunits2,udunits2libandudunits2prog.
Modules
Currently installed version is 2.1.24. To activate the package, issue module load udunits from the command line or put this line into your login shell. For more versions see module avail udunits
Examples
To activate udunits type
module load udunits/2.1.24_intel
Direct calls of the udunits binary will be of minor importance. After loading the module, one may try
udunits
You have: J
You want: cal
<cal> = <J>*0.238846
<cal> = <J>/4.1868