Re: [Matplotlib-users] saving a figure

2008-08-18 Thread izak marais
Hi, Please do not underestimate the usefulness of this feature of Matlab. I am working on my PhD which is a long term project and requires many figures in the final dissertation. It very convenient in Matlab to be able to make small adjustment to plots you generated a year ago by simply

Re: [Matplotlib-users] OS X (Intel Mac) installation woes

2008-08-18 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
Nathaniel Virgo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi allI'm having trouble installing on OS X.  The short story is it looks like something file is trying to build something for a ppc architecture when I'm on an Intel mac.Here's the long story:First I downloaded the

[Matplotlib-users] multivariate scatter plots?

2008-08-18 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
I'm trying to track down a function/recipe for generating a multivariate scatter plot. I'm thinking of something similar to what you get in R if you call plot on a multivariate data frame: http://mt11.quickshareit.com/share/rplotb1a70.pdf Is there anything obvious here? It seems like something

Re: [Matplotlib-users] windrose OO

2008-08-18 Thread Lionel Roubeyrie
Hi, sorry for the latency, holidays just finished :-( Find with this message a modified version of windrose_oo, but I'm not very familiar with the new projections facilities, and then the code is buggy : ## Traceback (most recent call last): File windrose_oo.py,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] multivariate scatter plots?

2008-08-18 Thread Alan G Isaac
Chris Fonnesbeck wrote: I'm trying to track down a function/recipe for generating a multivariate scatter plot. I'm thinking of something similar to what you get in R if you call plot on a multivariate data frame: http://mt11.quickshareit.com/share/rplotb1a70.pdf Yes, that would be really

Re: [Matplotlib-users] legend text vertical alignment

2008-08-18 Thread Darren Dale
Hi Robin, Could you post a *simple* script that reproduces the problem? And in the meantime, to get a figure that looks better for your publication, can you save your figure as an svg, import it into inkscape, tweak the bad placement, and then save a pdf? Darren On Monday 18 August 2008

Re: [Matplotlib-users] legend text vertical alignment

2008-08-18 Thread Robin
Hi, On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Darren Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you post a *simple* script that reproduces the problem? And in the meantime, to get a figure that looks better for your publication, can you save your figure as an svg, import it into inkscape, tweak the bad

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Arrow Questions

2008-08-18 Thread Ben Axelrod
Bump. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Axelrod Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:54 PM To: Matplotlib Subject: [Matplotlib-users] Arrow Questions I am trying to implement a dynamic graph in mpl, where users can drag around the

[Matplotlib-users] Set MPLCONFIGDIR to something different

2008-08-18 Thread stuartornum
Hi, Im getting the error: type 'exceptions.RuntimeError': Failed to create /$dirstring$/common/.matplotlib; consider setting MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for matplotlib configuration data The problem is I do not have write access to the MatPlotLib module sourse, so I cannot change the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Set MPLCONFIGDIR to something different

2008-08-18 Thread Jeff Whitaker
stuartornum wrote: Hi, Im getting the error: type 'exceptions.RuntimeError': Failed to create /$dirstring$/common/.matplotlib; consider setting MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for matplotlib configuration data The problem is I do not have write access to the MatPlotLib module sourse,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Set MPLCONFIGDIR to something different

2008-08-18 Thread Brent Pedersen
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:25 AM, stuartornum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jeff, Sorry I should have explained more. I am running a web app also I currently working for a very large organisation so the infrastructure is quite different to your average home / signle server setup. Thank you.