On Saturday 11 June 2005 23:54, Brian J. Lopes wrote: > > I would appreciate any pointers, links etc. I would also consider > > alternate tools. I still haven't found that great plotting tool that > > seems to do all I > > I think R should be able to handle all that you need or want. I use > it all the time for my work. If you go to the R project website, you > can find a link under Manuals to "An Introduction to R". In that > you'll find a decent (not extremely thorough, but useful) explaination > behind the graphics in R. Here is a direct link to the section I'm > talking about: > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#Graphics > I have already read through most of this, and whilst it provided a good overview I found it lacking in many areas. As my other reply stated I have however come across the contributed docs and some of those seem to fill some of these holes.
> > need in Linux just yet... May be there is an R package I would be > > much better > > off using. > > This is definitely a possibility, but it would depend on exactly what > kind of analysis you are doing or plotting. It is mainly to allow me to produce good quality plots for publication and at some point in the future my thesis. See the plot I linked to - it is not quite up to scratch just yet in several areas such as the axes not scaling as I set them and the y scale numbers falling off the plot. I also want to get it displaying them in scientific notation - i.e. 0.5x10^-3 etc if possible... I might just divide through by 1000 and change the scale to microamps in this particular case though. I do work with X-ray/neutron reflectivity where I need to have a log scale and display that in scientific notation though. Grace can do all this, but as I said I like the idea of being able to write several R programs to process my results in various ways which are fairly standard. Thanks for the tips, Marcus -- Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific Applications | AMD64 | KDE | net-proxy
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