Thanks, yes seen those. Just wondered if I was missing a Julia base "hist"
equivalent. Guess not! Thanks
On Friday, December 20, 2013 5:58:47 PM UTC, James Porter wrote:
>
> Right now there is no "standard" plotting library (in the sense that there
> none have yet been blessed by the core team and included as a part of Julia
> itself). However, Winston and Gadfly are both great options. All you have
> to do is Pkg.add("Winston") or Pkg.add("Gadfly"), depending on which you
> want to use, and you should be good to go. The docs for each are
> http://winston.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html and
> http://dcjones.github.io/Gadfly.jl/
> respectively <http://dcjones.github.io/Gadfly.jl/>.
>
> There has been some discussion of adding some standard packages (e.g.
> plotting stuff) to the bast Julia distribution, follow along here:
> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1906
>
>
> On Friday, December 20, 2013 7:47:49 AM UTC-6, Chris Wray wrote:
>>
>> Hi - I've been experimenting with Julia for the last week, on and off.
>> I'm an experienced R user, and get by with C++, java, python, etc.
>>
>> Wanted to say fantastic effort - really enjoying Julia.
>> To get to grips with Julia I looked at porting some simulation stuff I
>> had in R/C++ into Julia.
>>
>> Everything went well, except the graphics.
>>
>> As any experienced R user would likely do initially..I got some data:
>>
>> *data=Rmath.rnorm(1000,0,1)*
>>
>> and would like to chuck up a basic histogram (as in R):
>>
>> *hist(data)*
>>
>> From my incomplete readings, I could not tell if there is a "standard"
>> graphics platform (Winston, Gadfly, etc).
>>
>> After numerous things did not work, I ended up using Plot.ly - via Julia,
>> which although effortless, leaves me feeling I've missed something
>> "native" to Base Julia, or perhaps an easier way to do this via another
>> module?
>>
>> Is there a standard "benchmark" way to chuck up a histogram, something
>> that I've missed?
>> Thanks, chris
>>
>>
