[lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot
Evelyn Mitchell
efm at tummy.com
Wed Oct 11 22:06:28 MDT 2006
* On 2006-10-11 20:59 Daniel Webb <lists at danielwebb.us> wrote:
> It stinks for publishing 3D data in black and white (like journals). No 3D
> bar plots. No ability to print the contour level on the contours (like a topo
> map). How stupid is that to have to look over at a legend to figure out which
> of the 8 slightly different kinds of dotted lines correspond to which level?
>
> Know of anything better for 3D that runs on Linux?
>
R does lovely plots:
http://www.r-project.org/
http://www.r-project.org/screenshots/screenshots.html
3d bar charts, unless your data actually has 3 dimensions, are terribly
misleading.
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Evelyn Mitchell Linux Consulting since 1995
efm at tummy.com Senior System and Network Administrators
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