On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Stuart Prescott wrote: > A question that has come up a few times on this list is how people > go about producing publication quality graphs. I'm revisiting this > question as I'm yet to find a method that actually works for me.
I personally use R here for almost all of the publication quality graphs that I need to make here. My basic workflow looks like the following: 1) data entry into gnumeric 2) export to tab delineated files 3) tweak .R file so that it does what I want it to do for this particular dataset [I've got a set of these that I use for different experiments/graph types that I use often.] 4) R --no-save < foo.R; to run the R file 5) ps2pdf if I need to send it to people who don't have gv [I actually have makefiles to do 4&5] Of course, R is probably a bit more difficult to get started in, but the power of the language makes it quite useful to me, despite its steep learning curve. http://rzlab.ucr.edu/debian/debian-science/ should give you sort of an idea of what I'm doing. [Ignore the gigantic +/-, that was a less than stellar experiment.] Don Armstrong -- I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense." ;-P -- Cory Doctorow http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
