Re: alternatives to gnuplot ?
You are right about almost everthing! Sorry for the coment
Em Quinta 06 Abril 2006 10:23, Stuart Prescott escreveu:
> > Hi! i read your thread, it is not a good thead and possible was write by
> > someone who don't have patience to learn something new.
You are right about almost everthing! Sorry for the comment
But look your conclusion:
"there is nothing in linux land that even comes close to Origin for
flexible scientific graphing and data management. That's a pity... linux
leads in everything else, but I know very few other people who will put
the sort of time in that I have done in trying to get this to work."
Regards, Maicon
>
> As the OP on that thread, I'll jump to my own defence here... I was more
> than willing to learn something new -- that's why I was asking for advice
> on what was available. Partly, it was a question of finding out what
> plotting programs/packages people were using and partly looking at what
> other workflows people were using for data management and plotting.
>
> The problem I had was that none of the plotting utilities I had tried were
> compatible with my existing workflow (which I had adopted through the use
> of tools such as excel and origin) and most were incompatible with the data
> formats that I have the datasets in. (these formats weren't that exotic...
> csv or tab delimited with a header row, multiple X columns per file etc)
>
> My unwillingness was not to learn, I was just unwilling to reprocess
> multi-gigabyte datasets accumulated over some years of research and rewrite
> all my dataprocessing scriptss so that the utilities that I had tried out
> could even read in the data to begin with. Then there were just he plain
> bugs in the packages which stopped you from even changing the window size
> in which you were looking at a plot
>
> For the record, I have been using PyX for the six months since that
> discussion and I am quite happy with it. It's a steep learning curve
> (partly due to the documentation being pretty patchy when it comes to
> customising symbols and lines etc and partly through having python as a
> pre-req) but I'm liking the results. I've changed my typical workflow to
> be .dat + .py = .eps and that is agreeing with me quite well. Importantly,
> I haven't had to rewrite several dozen data processing scripts and reformat
> my data archive to use PyX.
>
> Thanks to those who suggested PyX to me both on- and off-list and provided
> some useful resources for learning a little python to get it all happening.
> I'm sure the little python scripts I've got to assemble the plots look like
> a perl person writing python and would make python aficionados cringe, but
> they work for me (TM) :)
>
> Thanks also to those who suggested other tools that I didn't end up running
> with... it's all good for the melting pot.
>
> > Xmgrace is a respectable plot application in scientic comunit and you can
> > do all that origin makes and even more ! i recommend !!
>
> Read my original post. Many years ago I used xmgr for plotting data during
> a summer project and quite liked it, but the versions I had used could not
> cope with my data sets without a lot of faffing with either pipes or
> preprocessing data into temp files. Not going to happen for me until I
> change research directions sufficiently fast as to discard all current
> datasets and data processing tools.
>
> > Labpot is a excelente progam to!
>
> I've not been back to look at labplot and qtiplot since my original
> investigation of them and there have been several new releases of them
> since I did. Hopefully some of the limitations have been removed since then
> (Stefan Gerlach, the developer of labplot tells me that they are fixed in
> versions newer than the one that I tested). Given that, they are probably
> worth looking at again. (Although now I've settled on PyX, I'm unlikely to
> change again for a few years... one can't afford the time to learn a new
> graphing tool every few months; at some stage one actually needs to get
> some work done rather than adapting to the new graphing package du jour.)
>
> best of luck with it!
>
> cheers
> Stuart
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