I'm happy to announce a new tagged release of https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl, a plotting package that is simple and easy to use, and which I hope will one day offer the union (not an intersection) of functionality between underlying backends. This is still a work in progress, but it's possible to create many varied plots already. Check out the recently expanded readme and linked examples to see more. I currently support 6 different plotting backends to varying degrees, all of which use exactly the same plotting commands:
- Gadfly - Immerse - PyPlot - Winston - UnicodePlots - Qwt Immerse is the new package from Tim Holy which allows for viewing Gadfly plots in a Gtk gui window, with some cool functionality to zoom/pan and select points for numerical analysis... it is my recommendation for the best backend, and it is (along with Gadfly) the best supported. I also appreciate UnicodePlots (REPL only) for the minimal dependencies... for quick plots it's pretty cool. Some of the big improvements coming down the pipeline are support for partitioning incoming data, various datapoint-specific settings (such as varying size/color of individual points), and rounding out the standard library of graph manipulation (specialized axes, scales, etc). If Plots covers most of your needs right now except for a few tweaks, you can always access the underlying plot objects for the backend of your choice and update directly. (however please ask questions and request features so that I know what to prioritize, and of course report any bugs that you find). In the longer term I plan to include some recipes and example IJulia notebooks for creating more complicated plots, as well as other types of visualizations (graphs, 3D) and interactivity. Feedback and wishlists are appreciated! Happy plotting. Tom
