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
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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