Here's a gist with an example use of hist an a Winston plot thereof: https://gist.github.com/adriancu/8065211
Regards, Adrian. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Chris Wray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>>
