#Introduction
DataSpork is an analysis toolkit for performing statistical analysis of computer simulation data. Despite the wide use and increasing importance of computer simulation methods such a Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics in many fields of science, robust software tools for data analysis are still not available. DataSpork was designed to perform statistical analysis common to most simulations methods, as well as allow for extension to other data types and analysis tasks
DataSpork was written at the University of Illinois in the late 1990's by John Shumway for Prof. David Ceperley's research group and materials simulation course. Erik Draeger continued development for the next two years. John Shumway maintains the package, mostly for student use.
You can download the jar file directly for github: https://github.com/downloads/shumway/DataSpork/dataspork.jar
If you wish to build from source, running ant in the home directory builds the jar file.
The jar file can be run with:
java -jar dataspork.jar
You may find it handy to set this as a UNIX alias using the full path to the jar file,
alias ds='java -jar $HOME/bin/dataspork.jar'
This program is OLD! It needs to be compiled with -soruce 1.4, as specified in the ant file. I hope to fix that soon.