Re: RFS: rlplot - generate publication quality graphs

2004-07-07 Thread James Stone
There are two separate things that you deal with in R. The first is raw data. A simple spreadsheet program like gnumeric or a texteditor sufices to enter the data. Once you've got the raw data, you (ideally) perform all of the manipulations of that data in R to prepare your graphs. In

Re: RFS: rlplot - generate publication quality graphs

2004-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004, James Stone wrote: I have had a look at R. For my purposes (a drop in replacement for sigmaplot or excel), R is overkill, not to say difficult to learn with a steep learning curve.. No doubt. R is a bit overkill for almost everything normal people do. [But when you need

Re: RFS: rlplot - generate publication quality graphs

2004-07-07 Thread elijah wright
I have had a look at R. For my purposes (a drop in replacement for sigmaplot or excel), R is overkill, not to say difficult to learn with a steep learning curve.. No doubt. R is a bit overkill for almost everything normal people do. [But when you need its features, it's often the only

R and svg [Re: RFS: rlplot - generate publication quality graphs]

2004-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004, elijah wright wrote: methinks there's probably an svg output package for R on CRAN Like http://www.darkridge.com/~jake/RSvg/ ? ;-) Don Armstrong -- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing

Re: RFS: rlplot - generate publication quality graphs

2004-07-07 Thread James Stone
There are two separate things that you deal with in R. The first is raw data. A simple spreadsheet program like gnumeric or a texteditor sufices to enter the data. Once you've got the raw data, you (ideally) perform all of the manipulations of that data in R to prepare your graphs. In

Re: RFS: rlplot - generate publication quality graphs

2004-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004, James Stone wrote: I have had a look at R. For my purposes (a drop in replacement for sigmaplot or excel), R is overkill, not to say difficult to learn with a steep learning curve.. No doubt. R is a bit overkill for almost everything normal people do. [But when you need

Re: RFS: rlplot - generate publication quality graphs

2004-07-07 Thread elijah wright
I have had a look at R. For my purposes (a drop in replacement for sigmaplot or excel), R is overkill, not to say difficult to learn with a steep learning curve.. No doubt. R is a bit overkill for almost everything normal people do. [But when you need its features, it's often the only

R and svg [Re: RFS: rlplot - generate publication quality graphs]

2004-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004, elijah wright wrote: methinks there's probably an svg output package for R on CRAN Like http://www.darkridge.com/~jake/RSvg/ ? ;-) Don Armstrong -- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing