Re: RFS: rlplot - generate publication quality graphs

[James Stone <jmstone@dsl.pipex.com>]

> 
> 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 my current
> work, I have a relatively standard data treatment that I apply to raw
> data which produces the plots automagically without wasting time
> entering formulas in a spreadsheet.
> 
> Not to mention that the plotting in R is publication quality straight
> out of the box, which is, frankly, not the case for most extant
> graphing programs.
> 
> 
> Don Armstrong

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..

rlplot fills the gap to a certain extent for me, better than any other
plotting program I have seen yet in Linux, and IMHO the output is at least
as good as any other graphing program available at present. Also it
outputs in scalable vectors which is nice for Latex formatting..

The upstream author seems keen to add features, but I think it needs to be
in the Debian packages to get more exposure.

James.