Again, this may be overkill for the simple situation that the original questioner has, but I do want to bring to everyone's attention the R statistical package. R is open-source, so people on this list should be pleased to hear that R has become extremely popular among statistics users worldwide.
R started as a lookalike to S, a commercial product from Bell Labs. (Kind of a pun on the C language from Bell Labs, with "S" for "statistics," of course.) AT&T then extended S to S-Plus, with the extension mainly being a GUI to the old text-oriented S. R remains text-oriented. Needless to say, R does histograms and myriad other statistical plots. But it is also a programming language, of the scripting type. It's certainly not as powerful as Perl or Python (though there are R-Python interfaces), but it does mean one can write one's own routines, say for automating plots. R is available at http://www.r-project.org/ and I have a short tutorial at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html Norm _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
