Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes:
> 4) If you're forking to run gnuplot, why not do so from Scheme?
Coincidentally, I recently wrote this:
(define (gnuplot file-name plot-command)
(let ((pipe (open-output-pipe "gnuplot -")))
(format pipe
"\
set terminal png
set output '~a'
~a
quit
"
file-name
plot-command)
(close-pipe pipe))
(system (string-append "display " file-name)))
Example usage:
(gnuplot "table1.png"
"plot 'table1.txt' using 1:6 with lines, 4*x/log(2*x), 4*x/log(x)")
Daniel, if you feel like including this in the tutorial as an
alternative to the C code, please do so.
> Anyway, IMO, FWIW, etc. If you don't reply, I'll probably just commit
> your tutorial more-or-less as-is to the repo :)
Although the tutorial is now on the web, I still haven't done anything
as regards committing it to Git. That's not because I think we
shouldn't; it just that I haven't pondered how best to do it yet.
Neil
