Re: Scientific Graphing, R and Perl

People have complained about the quality of GD and its children's graphics quality, but you may want to test it out.

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Re: Re: Scientific Graphing, R and Perl by Willard B. Trophy (Hermit) on Mar 17, 2003 at 20:37 UTC
Maybe coyote is wanting hardcopy-quality output. Much as I like GD, sometimes you can beat good old EPS for quality graphics. There is a gnuplot module for Perl, but it looks like it only wants to talk bitmap output. You could always pipe your output into gnuplot, if it's up to the task in question. I have also seen absurdly complex graphs generated on the fly in pic, the troff-era interpreted graphics language, but that way madness lies. -- bowling trophy thieves, die!	[reply]
Re: Re: Scientific Graphing, R and Perl by Coyote (Deacon) on Mar 17, 2003 at 21:02 UTC
I've looked into GD. In addition to the generally spartan nature of the output, I don't think GD can do log scaled graphs or EPS output. These graphs need to be included in a LaTeX document which is being submitted to a journal for publication, so GD isn't going to do it for me. Thanks for you help, though. ---- Coyote	[reply]


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