Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing software
I've been using Kaleidagraph for years. It's available from Synergy Software. On Jul 30, 2013, at 12:00 AM, ECOLOG-L automatic digest system wrote: Date:Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:34:49 +1000 From:Isabelle Wolf easyw...@web.demailto:easyw...@web.de Subject: Graphing software Dear Ecolog, Can anybody please recommend their favourite graphing software to = produce graphs for academic papers (in Eology or else)? When I say = 'graphing software', I mean other than for example Excel, R or graphing = capabilities integrated in software packages. Many thanks for any recommendations. Kind regards, Isabelle Dr. Isabelle Wolf * Research and Analysis Officer NSW National Parks Wildlife Service Office of Environment and Heritage Richard L. Boyce, Ph.D. Director, Environmental Science Program Professor Department of Biological Sciences, SC 150 Northern Kentucky University Nunn Drive Highland Heights, KY 41099 USA 859-572-1407 (tel.) 859-572-5639 (fax) boy...@nku.edumailto:boy...@nku.edu http://www.nku.edu/~boycer/ = One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A.A. Milne
[ECOLOG-L] Graphing software
Dear Ecolog, Can anybody please recommend their favourite graphing software to produce graphs for academic papers (in Eology or else)? When I say 'graphing software', I mean other than for example Excel, R or graphing capabilities integrated in software packages. Many thanks for any recommendations. Kind regards, Isabelle Dr. Isabelle Wolf * Research and Analysis Officer NSW National Parks Wildlife Service Office of Environment and Heritage Department of Premier and Cabinet Level 2, Hurstville, NSW 2220
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing software
Grapher - http://www.goldensoftware.com/products/grapher Origin - http://www.originlab.com/ Minitab - http://www.minitab.com/ Prism - http://www.graphpad.com/ JMP - http://www.jmp.com/ NCL - ncl.ncar.edu Noel Aloysius On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Isabelle Wolf easyw...@web.de wrote: Dear Ecolog, Can anybody please recommend their favourite graphing software to produce graphs for academic papers (in Eology or else)? When I say 'graphing software', I mean other than for example Excel, R or graphing capabilities integrated in software packages. Many thanks for any recommendations. Kind regards, Isabelle Dr. Isabelle Wolf * Research and Analysis Officer NSW National Parks Wildlife Service Office of Environment and Heritage Department of Premier and Cabinet Level 2, Hurstville, NSW 2220
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing software
PSI-Plot (http://www.polysoftware.com/index.htm) Ken Petersen On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Isabelle Wolf easyw...@web.de wrote: Dear Ecolog, Can anybody please recommend their favourite graphing software to produce graphs for academic papers (in Eology or else)? When I say 'graphing software', I mean other than for example Excel, R or graphing capabilities integrated in software packages. Many thanks for any recommendations. Kind regards, Isabelle Dr. Isabelle Wolf * Research and Analysis Officer NSW National Parks Wildlife Service Office of Environment and Heritage Department of Premier and Cabinet Level 2, Hurstville, NSW 2220
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing software
DeltaGraph is cross-system compatible between Windows and Mac, and the most flexible/powerful paid program that I know of for Mac (http://www.redrocksw.com/index.php/introducing-deltagraph-6.html). Given it's flexibility and power, I'm surprised more people don't use it. Especially since it's been around for 15+ years. If you are Windows only, then SigmaPlot is widely used. The graphing capabilities of Excel have gotten much better over the past couple of versions, but it still doesn't have some of the scientific plotting capabilities of DeltaGraph or SigmaPlot. If you want free, then R is the way to go, in conjunction with one of the graphing cookbooks (there are a few). Jesse Becker, Ph.D. Texas State University Department of Biology Freeman Aquatic Station San Marcos, TX 78666 On 7/29/13 1:34 AM, Isabelle Wolf easyw...@web.de wrote: Dear Ecolog, Can anybody please recommend their favourite graphing software to produce graphs for academic papers (in Eology or else)? When I say 'graphing software', I mean other than for example Excel, R or graphing capabilities integrated in software packages. Many thanks for any recommendations. Kind regards, Isabelle Dr. Isabelle Wolf * Research and Analysis Officer NSW National Parks Wildlife Service Office of Environment and Heritage Department of Premier and Cabinet Level 2, Hurstville, NSW 2220
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing software
Dear Ecologgers, Many thanks for your great response to my question. The clear favorite by the most people is SigmaPlot. Other suggestions (apart from R, Minitab and JMP) included: Inkscape PSI-Plot (http://www.polysoftware.com/index.htm) Gnuplot PyX (in python) pgfplots (in LaTeX) Software found on portableapps.com OriginPro (The memory footprint is small and import of large data-sets as easy as drag and drop. IGOR Pro) LabPlot DeltaGraph (compatible between Windows and Mac, and the most flexible/powerful paid program that I know of for Mac) Grapher - http://www.goldensoftware.com/products/grapher Origin - http://www.originlab.com/ Prism - http://www.graphpad.com/ NCL - http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ Greetings to all from Sydney, Isabelle Dr. Isabelle Wolf * Research and Analysis Officer NSW National Parks Wildlife Service Office of Environment and Heritage Department of Premier and Cabinet Level 2, Hurstville, NSW 2220 - Original Message - From: Isabelle Wolf To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 4:34 PM Subject: Graphing software Dear Ecolog, Can anybody please recommend their favourite graphing software to produce graphs for academic papers (in Eology or else)? When I say 'graphing software', I mean other than for example Excel, R or graphing capabilities integrated in software packages. Many thanks for any recommendations. Kind regards, Isabelle Dr. Isabelle Wolf * Research and Analysis Officer NSW National Parks Wildlife Service Office of Environment and Heritage Department of Premier and Cabinet Level 2, Hurstville, NSW 2220
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing software for undergrad courses
Thank you for your comments. As I said in an earlier post, I do believe that getting students familiar with the spreadsheet functions of Excel - sorting, copying, fill, formulas, etc. - may be the most worthwhile thing that I teach them. And, Excel is almost as integral to some of my research as a microscope is to others'. BUT, Excel, particularly its graphics, was clearly designed for business applications. It may make fine graphs for a corporate presentations. But the first thing I always have to do is to tell my students to undo some of the silly defaults like gridlines and Chart Titles. And I'll send $5 to anyone that can tell me what is presented when I insert Error Bars. (And yes, I know how to do it manually. But who would expect that the one-click version is nonsense and in order to do it right you have to make 6 clicks?) The bigger frustration for me is the number of versions. 2 platforms (Mac vs. PC) x 2 versions each and counting. Oh, and the latest Excel doesn't have the Analysis Toolpac. But the next one will! Great - another version I have to expect my students to have. Maybe Excel in my class is like Churchill's Democracy - it is the worst in the world, except for all of the others. But I have to try some of the others first. I have been asked to report my experiences back to the List, and I will try to do so in March. I am not doing any quantitative comparisons of students' experiences, but if anyone wants to think about this as a TIEE kind of study in the future, I'd be willing to listen. -Jeff *** Jeffrey D. Corbin Department of Biological Sciences Union College Schenectady, NY 12308 (518) 388-6097 *** -Original Message- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Hamazaki, Hamachan (DFG) Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:46 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing software for undergrad courses Whether or not we like EXCEL using for graphing and statistics, reality is that almost all people (business, academic, government, NGO, etc) use EXCEL for those purposes. Even those who use R regularly, use EXCEL for data entry and simple summary statistics. (How many of R users directly input data to R using data - c()? ) I also know that many my coworkers took stats using R, but now most of them use EXCEL for data summary, graphing, and simple stats. In today's work environment, all graduating students must have fluency in EXCEL or similar spreadsheet programs. For this reason, I use EXCEL for my introductory stats class. Even they forget all stats they were taught, they will remember how to use EXCEL, which will be their benefit for job. If EXCEL is costly, then Open Office Calc is a better alternative. Almost similar (EXCEL 2003) interface and functionality, and free. Yes, some of EXCEL Stats calculation is very questionable quality in precisions, but many ecologists often ignore fundamental statistical assumptions: unbiased sampling, assurance of samples representing a population of interest, valid replications, no measurement errors, assurance of independent and identically distributed random variables, etc. Ignoring those issues will result in wrong estimates, even using R or other best stats programs. Toshihide Hamachan Hamazaki, 濱崎俊秀PhD Alaska Department of Fish and Game Diivision of Commercial Fisheries 333 Raspberry Rd. Anchorage, AK 99518 Phone: (907)267-2158 Cell: (907)440-9934 -Original Message- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of malcolm McCallum Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:35 AM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing software for undergrad courses Use R, it will do any graphs you need and you are giving them the opportunity to work with a legit widely used program that everyone should use. malcolm On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Corbin, Jeffrey D. corb...@union.edu wrote: Hello Ecologgers - Does anyone have recommendations for alternatives to Excel for graphing and/or spreadsheet applications in undergraduate labs? I have finally decided that Excel's graphing is so nonintuitive that it is not worth the waste of time to teach in an undergraduate lab. Requirements: - It only needs to do very simple graphs - bar graphs of means +/- SE for several treatments, regression, etc.; - I am very happy with SigmaPlot for my own research applications, but I am looking for something (e.g. Freeware) that we can install on dozens of Department computers without the licensing fees. Also, may students complete assignments on their own laptops so having something that they can install themselves would be preferable. - If it also has spreadsheet capabilities (e.g. sorting, formulas, calculation of means and SE, etc.) it would be even
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing software for undergrad courses
Whether or not we like EXCEL using for graphing and statistics, reality is that almost all people (business, academic, government, NGO, etc) use EXCEL for those purposes. Even those who use R regularly, use EXCEL for data entry and simple summary statistics. (How many of R users directly input data to R using data - c()? ) I also know that many my coworkers took stats using R, but now most of them use EXCEL for data summary, graphing, and simple stats. In today's work environment, all graduating students must have fluency in EXCEL or similar spreadsheet programs. For this reason, I use EXCEL for my introductory stats class. Even they forget all stats they were taught, they will remember how to use EXCEL, which will be their benefit for job. If EXCEL is costly, then Open Office Calc is a better alternative. Almost similar (EXCEL 2003) interface and functionality, and free. Yes, some of EXCEL Stats calculation is very questionable quality in precisions, but many ecologists often ignore fundamental statistical assumptions: unbiased sampling, assurance of samples representing a population of interest, valid replications, no measurement errors, assurance of independent and identically distributed random variables, etc. Ignoring those issues will result in wrong estimates, even using R or other best stats programs. Toshihide Hamachan Hamazaki, 濱崎俊秀PhD Alaska Department of Fish and Game Diivision of Commercial Fisheries 333 Raspberry Rd. Anchorage, AK 99518 Phone: (907)267-2158 Cell: (907)440-9934 -Original Message- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of malcolm McCallum Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:35 AM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing software for undergrad courses Use R, it will do any graphs you need and you are giving them the opportunity to work with a legit widely used program that everyone should use. malcolm On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Corbin, Jeffrey D. corb...@union.edu wrote: Hello Ecologgers - Does anyone have recommendations for alternatives to Excel for graphing and/or spreadsheet applications in undergraduate labs? I have finally decided that Excel's graphing is so nonintuitive that it is not worth the waste of time to teach in an undergraduate lab. Requirements: - It only needs to do very simple graphs - bar graphs of means +/- SE for several treatments, regression, etc.; - I am very happy with SigmaPlot for my own research applications, but I am looking for something (e.g. Freeware) that we can install on dozens of Department computers without the licensing fees. Also, may students complete assignments on their own laptops so having something that they can install themselves would be preferable. - If it also has spreadsheet capabilities (e.g. sorting, formulas, calculation of means and SE, etc.) it would be even better. Could be a different program, though. While we're on the subject, any recommendations for free, but user-friendly, stats packages for undergrad labs (t-test, ANOVA, regression) would be helpful too. Thanks, and Happy New Year. -Jeff *** Jeffrey D. Corbin Department of Biological Sciences Union College Schenectady, NY 12308 (518) 388-6097 *** -- Malcolm L. McCallum Managing Editor, Herpetological Conservation and Biology Peer pressure is designed to contain anyone with a sense of drive - Allan Nation 1880's: There's lots of good fish in the sea W.S. Gilbert 1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution. 2000: Marine reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction MAY help restore populations. 2022: Soylent Green is People! Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
[ECOLOG-L] Graphing software for undergrad courses
Hello Ecologgers - Does anyone have recommendations for alternatives to Excel for graphing and/or spreadsheet applications in undergraduate labs? I have finally decided that Excel's graphing is so nonintuitive that it is not worth the waste of time to teach in an undergraduate lab. Requirements: - It only needs to do very simple graphs - bar graphs of means +/- SE for several treatments, regression, etc.; - I am very happy with SigmaPlot for my own research applications, but I am looking for something (e.g. Freeware) that we can install on dozens of Department computers without the licensing fees. Also, may students complete assignments on their own laptops so having something that they can install themselves would be preferable. - If it also has spreadsheet capabilities (e.g. sorting, formulas, calculation of means and SE, etc.) it would be even better. Could be a different program, though. While we're on the subject, any recommendations for free, but user-friendly, stats packages for undergrad labs (t-test, ANOVA, regression) would be helpful too. Thanks, and Happy New Year. -Jeff *** Jeffrey D. Corbin Department of Biological Sciences Union College Schenectady, NY 12308 (518) 388-6097 ***
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing software for undergrad courses
Use R, it will do any graphs you need and you are giving them the opportunity to work with a legit widely used program that everyone should use. malcolm On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Corbin, Jeffrey D. corb...@union.edu wrote: Hello Ecologgers - Does anyone have recommendations for alternatives to Excel for graphing and/or spreadsheet applications in undergraduate labs? I have finally decided that Excel's graphing is so nonintuitive that it is not worth the waste of time to teach in an undergraduate lab. Requirements: - It only needs to do very simple graphs - bar graphs of means +/- SE for several treatments, regression, etc.; - I am very happy with SigmaPlot for my own research applications, but I am looking for something (e.g. Freeware) that we can install on dozens of Department computers without the licensing fees. Also, may students complete assignments on their own laptops so having something that they can install themselves would be preferable. - If it also has spreadsheet capabilities (e.g. sorting, formulas, calculation of means and SE, etc.) it would be even better. Could be a different program, though. While we're on the subject, any recommendations for free, but user-friendly, stats packages for undergrad labs (t-test, ANOVA, regression) would be helpful too. Thanks, and Happy New Year. -Jeff *** Jeffrey D. Corbin Department of Biological Sciences Union College Schenectady, NY 12308 (518) 388-6097 *** -- Malcolm L. McCallum Managing Editor, Herpetological Conservation and Biology Peer pressure is designed to contain anyone with a sense of drive - Allan Nation 1880's: There's lots of good fish in the sea W.S. Gilbert 1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution. 2000: Marine reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction MAY help restore populations. 2022: Soylent Green is People! Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing Software for Macs
Of course, I expect that you'll get 99 emails telling you the virtues of R (!), so I won't bother being the 100th (though I could). That said, one program that seems fairly good is DataGraph (http://www.visualdatatools.com/DataGraph/), and it's not too pricey. I've also tried Abel (http://www.gigawiz.com/Aabel.html), which appears feature rich, but is not as straight forward as SigmaPlot...and will set you back nearly as much as Sigma Plot, if you like paying for software (which I don't). Cheers, Mike Michael W. Sears, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Program in Environmental Studies Department of Biology Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 office: 610-526-7576 lab: 610-526-7577 cell: 484-535-2116 web: http://www.thermalecology.com On Sep 19, 2010, at 06:32 PM, Murphy, Cheryl Ann murp...@ku.edu wrote: Hello, I was curious if anyone has found good graphing software that is compatible with macs - I'm looking to have graphs that would be suitable for publications. I've used Sigma Plot in the past but it is only windows-based. Thanks! Cheryl Murphy Ph.D. Candidate Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas murp...@ku.edu 423-208-1165
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing Software for Macs
Cheryl, I have a mac and use Kaleidagraph for all my publication graphic files. Its pretty easy to use. On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:44 PM, R Erickson raerick...@gmail.com wrote: Cheryl, R has a steep learning curve, but produces excellent graphics that are highly customizable. On the plus side, it's free and open source. You may download it here: http://www.r-project.org/ Once you've learned the basics of R, the search engine http://www.rseek.org/ is very helpful. If you're willing to pay, S-Plus offers similar graphic abilities as R and comes with a GUI. Good luck, Richard Erickson On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Murphy, Cheryl Ann murp...@ku.edu wrote: Hello, I was curious if anyone has found good graphing software that is compatible with macs - I'm looking to have graphs that would be suitable for publications. I've used Sigma Plot in the past but it is only windows-based. Thanks! Cheryl Murphy Ph.D. Candidate Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas murp...@ku.edu 423-208-1165 -- Matthew T. Brown, Ph.D. UCSC Ocean Sciences/Monterey Peninsula College (831)331-9369
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing Software for Macs
Hi Cheryl, I second the idea that you should bite the bullet and learn R. That being said, I haven't, and so use Aabel, which is excellent but does cost. http://www.gigawiz.com/ Cheers, Chris On 20 Sep 2010, at 08:32AM, Murphy, Cheryl Ann wrote: Hello, I was curious if anyone has found good graphing software that is compatible with macs - I'm looking to have graphs that would be suitable for publications. I've used Sigma Plot in the past but it is only windows-based. Thanks! Cheryl Murphy Ph.D. Candidate Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas murp...@ku.edu 423-208-1165 -- Chris Wurster, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate School of Earth and Environmental Sciences James Cook University Cairns 4870 Australia Office: A2-220 Office Phone: +61-7-4042-1196 Fax: +61-7-4042-1284 email: christopher.wurs...@jcu.edu.au
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing Software for Macs
For Mac's, if you don't want to learn R, DeltaGraph (by Red Rock Software) is a good option. They just released a new version (6) which I haven't used, but I've used version 5 and older. It will do most of what you need, without the steep learning curve of R. Much of the data organization should be similar to SigmaPlot. The interface can be a little unpolished (which may be fixed in version 6), but it will make almost any chart you will ever need. http://www.redrocksw.com/index.php/deltagraph-mac.html http://www.redrocksw.com/index.php/free-demo-version.html Jesse On Sep 19, 2010, at 5:32 PM, Murphy, Cheryl Ann wrote: Hello, I was curious if anyone has found good graphing software that is compatible with macs - I'm looking to have graphs that would be suitable for publications. I've used Sigma Plot in the past but it is only windows-based. Thanks! Cheryl Murphy Ph.D. Candidate Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas murp...@ku.edu 423-208-1165 Jesse Becker Doctoral Student Department of Biology Freeman Aquatic Station Texas State University - San Marcos jcbec...@txstate.edu
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing Software for Macs
I've been using proFit for publications. Its relatively cheap ($99), but seems to be able to do quite a bit. Has a free trial version too. http://www.quansoft.com/ - Sarah On Sep 19, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Mike Sears wrote: Of course, I expect that you'll get 99 emails telling you the virtues of R (!), so I won't bother being the 100th (though I could). That said, one program that seems fairly good is DataGraph (http://www.visualdatatools.com/DataGraph/), and it's not too pricey. I've also tried Abel (http://www.gigawiz.com/Aabel.html), which appears feature rich, but is not as straight forward as SigmaPlot...and will set you back nearly as much as Sigma Plot, if you like paying for software (which I don't). Cheers, Mike Michael W. Sears, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Program in Environmental Studies Department of Biology Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 office: 610-526-7576 lab: 610-526-7577 cell: 484-535-2116 web: http://www.thermalecology.com On Sep 19, 2010, at 06:32 PM, Murphy, Cheryl Ann murp...@ku.edu wrote: Hello, I was curious if anyone has found good graphing software that is compatible with macs - I'm looking to have graphs that would be suitable for publications. I've used Sigma Plot in the past but it is only windows-based. Thanks! Cheryl Murphy Ph.D. Candidate Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas murp...@ku.edu 423-208-1165 - Sarah Gilman, Ph.D. Joint Science Department Keck Science Center The Claremont Colleges 925 N. Mills Avenue Claremont, CA 91711 http://faculty.jsd.claremont.edu/sgilman sgil...@jsd.claremont.edu 909-607-0715
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing Software for Macs
Hi, Cheryl. Try DeltaGraph: http://redrocksw.com/deltagraph/mac We've been using it for a few years now - it's a useful program. There's also KaleidaGraph (http://www.synergy.com) and Prism (http://www.graphpad.com), which I haven't tried. To me, CricketGraph is the most complete, easy-to-use graphics program developed for the Mac, but it was developed in the 90's and cannot run natively in the Intel-based Macs. You'd need Basilisk II to run it in an Intel Mac, but that's another story. Good luck! Ricardo -- Dr Ricardo A. Scrosati Associate Professor Canada Research Chair (Marine Ecology) Saint Francis Xavier University, Department of Biology, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5, Canada Phone: 1-902-867-5289 - Fax: 1-902-867-2389 Webpage (with PDF papers to download): http://people.stfx.ca/rscrosat Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. (M.R. Hay)
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing Software for Macs
couple of other ideas beyond R 1. Graphsketcher (www.omni.com) not quite free, but darn close ($29), output can be exported as pdf, png, jpg and eps. The pdf files look as though they are true pdfs rather than a graphic file (eg tiff, jpg) in a pdf wrapper. 2. another possibility could be Protovis (http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/) This is a graphics package designed to create embeddable images for web pages. However the image elements are in svg format (open source equivalent to illustrator) which means that they should be readily scalable. I've done screen saves of images in pdf and seen no evidence of pixelization at the highest mag in preview (your mileage may vary). While it is free open source, the down side is that you would have to learn the a new layout language (its just a java script extension and they have lots of examples to build from) and have a web server to install it on - either remotely or setting up MAMP on your system (very easy) -David On 9/19/10 9:44 PM, R Erickson wrote: Cheryl, R has a steep learning curve, but produces excellent graphics that are highly customizable. On the plus side, it's free and open source. You may download it here: http://www.r-project.org/ Once you've learned the basics of R, the search engine http://www.rseek.org/ is very helpful. If you're willing to pay, S-Plus offers similar graphic abilities as R and comes with a GUI. Good luck, Richard Erickson On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Murphy, Cheryl Annmurp...@ku.edu wrote: Hello, I was curious if anyone has found good graphing software that is compatible with macs - I'm looking to have graphs that would be suitable for publications. I've used Sigma Plot in the past but it is only windows-based. Thanks! Cheryl Murphy Ph.D. Candidate Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas murp...@ku.edu 423-208-1165
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing Software for Macs
R does make nice graphs, but a much easier program that also produces publication-quality graphs is KaleidaGraph at http://www.synergy.com/. I've used K-graph for most of the papers I've published. Date:Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:32:39 -0500 From:Murphy, Cheryl Ann murp...@ku.edu Subject: Graphing Software for Macs Hello, I was curious if anyone has found good graphing software that is compatible with macs - I'm looking to have graphs that would be suitable for publications. I've used Sigma Plot in the past but it is only windows-based. Thanks! Cheryl Murphy Ph.D. Candidate Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas murp...@ku.edu 423-208-1165 -- Richard L. Boyce Director, Environmental Science Program Associate Professor Department of Biological Sciences Northern Kentucky University Nunn Drive Highland Heights, KY 41099 USA 859-572-1407 (tel.) 859-572-5639 (fax) boy...@nku.edu http://www.nku.edu/~boycer/ = One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A.A. Milne
[ECOLOG-L] Graphing Software for Macs
Hello, I was curious if anyone has found good graphing software that is compatible with macs - I'm looking to have graphs that would be suitable for publications. I've used Sigma Plot in the past but it is only windows-based. Thanks! Cheryl Murphy Ph.D. Candidate Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas murp...@ku.edu 423-208-1165
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Graphing Software for Macs
Cheryl, R has a steep learning curve, but produces excellent graphics that are highly customizable. On the plus side, it's free and open source. You may download it here: http://www.r-project.org/ Once you've learned the basics of R, the search engine http://www.rseek.org/ is very helpful. If you're willing to pay, S-Plus offers similar graphic abilities as R and comes with a GUI. Good luck, Richard Erickson On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Murphy, Cheryl Ann murp...@ku.edu wrote: Hello, I was curious if anyone has found good graphing software that is compatible with macs - I'm looking to have graphs that would be suitable for publications. I've used Sigma Plot in the past but it is only windows-based. Thanks! Cheryl Murphy Ph.D. Candidate Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas murp...@ku.edu 423-208-1165
