Thanks Adrian, Stefan and James. Yes, IJulia works well. I am currently making heavy use of igraph from R - and C++ via the excellent Rcpp package. Although I cannot drop R, I'm quite excited by developments in Julia.
Although R does not pretend to be a general purpose language, I think things have moved on from 1998s-ville...which, at times, using R sends me back to....just saying, not dissing.. cheers On Saturday, December 21, 2013 4:00:02 AM UTC, Adrian Cuthbertson wrote: > > 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]<javascript:> > > 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 >>>> >>>> >
