On Friday, February 7, 2014 12:41:21 PM UTC-5, G. Patrick Mauroy wrote:
> In my opinion, this may be a major stumbling block for Julia adoption.
> I, and I am sure many, find it typical routine to load data, crunch, make
> a variety of graphical views (sometimes very many), export them to files in
> an organized way for analysis and sharing a story line.
>
With many such plots, one file per plot could become quickly messy, harder
> to manage.
>
This is precisely what IJulia (IPython) notebooks give you: a single file,
including code and plots and other output, including descriptions, headings
etcetera, in order to share an analytical story. Much better than PDF
because other people can open the notebook and run their own computations
by modifying yours!
That being said, with PyPlot (i.e. matplotlib), you can make a single
figure (exportable to a file) containing multiple sub-plots using the
subplot command. e.g. 2 side-by-side plots via:
subplot(1,2,1)
plot(rand(10))
subplot(1,2,2)
plot(rand(20))
savefig("twoplots.pdf")
--SGJ
