This is great Frederic, you beat me to it! Although, I was more thinking
about how to incorporate it into the Vega.jl library, not expose the Vega
Lite API as you have.
I look forward to cross-contributing with you between Vega.jl and
VegaLite.jl!
On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 5:39:56 PM UTC-4, Frederic Testard wrote:
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> The julia package VegaLite has just been added to the official repo (
> install with Pkg.add("VegaLite") ). As the name suggests it provides
> bindings to the VegaLite plotting library (yet another way to make graphs
> with Julia !). VegaLite is a simplified version of Vega which reduces the
> functionality but provides in turn a simpler way to define graphs (see
> https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/).
>
> VegaLite uses graph descriptions in JSON but the julia syntax proposed by
> the package looks more like the ggplot syntax where a series of functions
> builds up the graph specs. You can check out the Quick tour/presentation at
> https://github.com/fredo-dedup/VegaLite.jl
>
> The supported backends are the standard REPL (a browser window will open),
> Escher and Jupyter.
>
> Issues, enhancements proposals are of course welcome !
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