SPUG: plot frameworks

Chris Wilkes cwilkes-spug at ladro.com
Wed Jul 9 01:51:02 CDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:13:43PM -0700, Fred Morris wrote:
> Anybody know of a ready-to-use plot framework?
> 
> I want an X-Y scatterplot, with each point labeled.
> 
> I want to be able to save to a file in some sort of graphics format.
> PostScript would be nice, bitmaps are ok.
> 
> Ideally it takes its data in some sort of array or other structure with the
> X and Y coordinates and the label for each point, and pouf -- there's the
> window... and maybe a button to save to a file. (I want it all, don't I?)

Have you looked at GnuPlot?
	http://www.gnuplot.info/

The demos are very impressive.  There's some perl modules for it so you
might be able to feed data into it, have it generate the plot and then
tell gnuplot to start its GUI with that plot.

Chris



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