Re: ROOT/gnuplot

[Ricky Egeland <Ricky.Egeland@cern.ch>]

On Jun 8, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 23:48 +0200, Yannick patois wrote:
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> > AS: Note new email address.
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> > Hi,
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> > Ricky Egeland wrote:
> > > I am responding to a thread I found on google which was active  
> > > nearly a
> > > year ago about ROOT (root.cern.ch) as a replacement for gnuplot.
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/09/msg00024.html
> > > You had mentioned you were interested in this project.
> > > I have a need to for a program that outputs ROOT plots but takes  
> > > data
> > > from stdin and command line arguments (a la gnuplot).  I started  
> > > this
> > > project but then decided to see if any work has already been done on
> > > this idea.  Can you say if it has?  Thank you.
> >
> > As far as I know, nothing has been done, but as I have been busy on
> > other subject at that time, I lost track of that subject. That's  
> > why I
> > forward it on the debian-science list where this discussion occurred.
> >
> > I'm still interested to contribute to such a project.
>
> Hmm, writing a GNUPlot-like front-end for ROOT, is about the sillyst
> thing I've heard in a long time.  ... [cut] ...

FYI, my motivation for doing this is to interface with a PHP web  
app.  I want to open a named pipe to the gnuplot-like program and  
write data to it from PHP.  The output will be a plot (PNG format)  
and ROOT file which is cached and displayed on the web site.

Cheers,
Ricky