On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 10 March 2016 at 14:18, Tom Breloff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes it's come a long way. Documentation is coming slower than >> functionality (typical open source...). However I added this yesterday, >> which should help answer a few questions: >> http://plots.readthedocs.org/en/latest/backends/ >> > > > According to your table PyPlot can do everything :-) I never thought > PyPot was fast. I thought Matplotlib was famous for being slow. Ok. I > updated Plots.jl and installed a few backends to play with (damn.. gadfly > seems to depend on everything). Some scattered comments / questions: > Quick tip: checkout the master or dev branches... I don't tag releases very often. > > - It's looking great! Good job. > Thanks. > > - On my computer PyPlot is the default. Is that true for everyone or just > me? > True for everyone (though that may change...) > > - GR is 100x faster than PyPlot, but it's ugly. The plot is all pixelated. > Is there a setting to make it look nice? The plots on the documentation > look nice. > If you plot in IJulia it should produce nice looking SVG > - How do I try the unicode plots? I tried `unicode()` but that function > doesn't exist. > `unicodeplots()`... just like the package name > > - Are Plotly and Gadfly supposed to just open a static plot (SVG?) on my > browser? That seems weird. > Yes. If you don't like it, use another backend! > > - I tried Immerse, but it just died on me. :-( > Not sure on that one. Clear your cache and Pkg.update()? > > INFO: Precompiling module Immerse... > ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: UndefVarError: absolute_native_units not > defined > ... > ERROR: Failed to precompile Immerse to > /home/daniel/.julia/lib/v0.4/Immerse.ji > > > - It's weird that the heatmap() makes hexagons on PyPlot but a regular > grid on the other backends. > Heatmaps are under active development... see https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/147 > > > I'll play more with Plots.jl later. But it's nice to see an attempt at a > unified plotting package for Julia. > > Cheers, > Daniel. > > > > If you want to follow the latest and greatest, the issues list is where to >> go. Let me know if you have any questions... I'm happy to help. >> >> Tom >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Does anyone know the status of Plots.jl? It seems to have come a long >>> way. At least the documentation makes it look pretty complete: >>> >>> http://plots.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ >>> >>> I'm looking at the backends. Does anyone know what "Gr", "Qwt", and >>> "unicodeplots" are? Apparently support for Winston was dropped? >>> >>> https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/152 >>> >>> I don't use Winston, but I'm curious to know what happened. Was Winston >>> hard to support? >>> >>> I am currently using PyPlot because I need the maturity of Matplotlib, >>> but I am happy to see all the effort that's going into making a native >>> plotting library for Julia. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Daniel. >>> >> >> >
