Re: [Bug-apl] Plotting data

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi,

I personally like gnuplot very much. The latest versions can also generate html output
so you can put your data on the web (even live if you use a combination of apache web server,
calling an APL CGI script, calling gnuplot).

Don't know anything about the other options, though.

/// Jürgen


On 01/17/2014 08:37 AM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:

In my attempt to start using GNU APL for more than learning and use it for real purposes, I wanted to use it to process performance data from benchmarks here at work.

This leads me to the need to visualise the data. Systems like R have "plot" commands that can plot any dataset. Obviously I want to do the same in APL.

Of course I wanted to implement a native library that hooks GNU APL into some existing graph plotting tool. Before I started doing that, I figured I'd ask for opinions first.

There are a few options:

• Simply run gnuplot as an external backend
• Use the plplot library
• Interface with R
• Use another library that I don't know about yet
• Write it from scratch

Any suggestions as to what to do? The gnuplot solution does feel appealing, since it's available pretty much everywhere.

Regards,

Elias