Personally, I would like the following functionality:
1) `plot(X)`, where `X` is a high-dimension array, to plot each column of
`X` on a single canvas (Matlab syntax);
2) `plot(X, c("red", "green", "blue"))` to plot each column with different
color (the color vector is broadcast) (R syntax).
On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 5:07:12 PM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote:
>
> PLplot cannot use new colors, except predefined before initialization,
> during plotting. This makes usage of Compose (primitives drawing backend
> package for Gadfly) somewhat hard because information about primitive
> colors appear as as you parse plot structure. Moreover, PLplot has large
> collection of high-level plotting functions (histograms, 3D plots, etc.)
> which could be used as directly and not reconstructed from primitives.
> Currently, I'm exploring different ways of using Gadfly syntax to handle
> high-level PLplot functions.
>
> On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 10:16:19 AM UTC-4, Andreas Lobinger wrote:
>>
>> I had overlooked this:
>>
>> On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 6:34:38 AM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I currently wrapped routings which cover basic functionality and allow
>>> to run most of examples. I've tried to make a Gadfly backend but
>>> unfortunately the way PLplot works with colors makes it very hard to
>>> integrate.
>>>
>>
>> What is special about PLplot and colors?
>>
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