Re: gnuplot

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Igor Khavkine wrote:

> I noticed that, when speaking of plotting programs, some people had
> very negative feelings about gnuplot. Personally, I've found gnuplot
> to be a very useful and versatile program. I've even used to produce
> figures for some publications.
>
> So I'd like to know what are the biggest complaints that people have
> about gnuplot? I'm sure these comments would also be useful for other
> people who are considering using this program. One thing that can be
> offputting is the bare command line interface. However, I'm interested
> more in comments about its functionality rather than interface.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Igor
>  
For starters
1) It cannot plot across rows. It can plot only across columns
2) Almost all the data processing has to be done using some outside 
program. It would be nice if it has more inherent data processing 
capabilities.
3) Not much 3D support - Stream lines cannot be drawn, vector plots 
cannot be drawn.



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