On 12 October 2005 at 22:01, Don Armstrong wrote: | 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
Why 4) and 5) ? R has a native pdf driver -- see help(pdf). And you can insert pdf charts directly into LaTeX too. | [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.] For an idea about the different things one can do with R graph, see the contributed graph gallery at http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/index.php Hth, Dirk -- Statistics: The (futile) attempt to offer certainty about uncertainty. -- Roger Koenker, 'Dictionary of Received Ideas of Statistics' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
