Evaluations of Free Scientific Plotting Software? 12
paulywog asks: "I've used a fair number of non-Free (Beer) scientific plotting packages during college and as an engineer -- including Matlab, SigmaPlot and DeltaGraph, Excel (ick), SAS, my trusty HP 48G, among others.
Lately, I've been looking for OSS resources that can provide similar features. Part of the reason is that there are some features that I've wanted, but never been able to get out the other software. One feature in particular: shade the area between two curves or shade the region outlined by error bars on this plot. I'd like to hear what experience other scientists and engineers have with OSS plotting packages in terms of ease of use, power, and flexibility."
Graphing is great... (Score:1)
GRI (Score:2)
I use R (GNU S-plus clone) (Score:2)
R is a clone of the statistics programming language/environment S-plus [bell-labs.com], which was invented at Bell Labs a number of years ago. It's a very nice, interpreted language with elegant support for vectors, functional programming, and even some basic object-orientation.
Grab the source from your nearest CRAN mirror [r-project.org] or the Debian package [debian.org].
OpenDX (Score:2)
gnuplot (Score:3)
Nate
BTW, The "gnu" in "gnuplot" has nothing to do with the fsf but I still think it's open source.
My choice (Score:1)
Re:My choice -- Bad URL (Score:1)
SciGraphica? (Score:1)
gnuplot, grace are the best choices IMHO (Score:1)
gnuplot [gnuplot.org] is insanely powerful and flexible, because it's scriptable and supports a ton of output formats. I don't know if it can do the shaded area between two curves bit, though. It also has some limited support for 3D plots, although if you're serious about 3D you should really look at IBM's OpenDX [opendx.org].
grace [weizmann.ac.il] is also a good choice if you like GUI plotting tools, but I'm so used to gnuplot that grace seems awkward...
Re:gnuplot, grace are the best choices IMHO (Score:1)
Found Something (Score:1)
Thanks for all of the input... time to go add some functionality to gnu plot I think!
xmgr? (Score:1)