Hi Andreas Most of the plotting packages are fine if you want to do basic stuff time series, bar charts ex but once you start adding complexity things start to get scary very quickly :)
I would like to use some features of 0.4 but it seems I can’t if I want to use IJulia and Gadfly all together I spent a bit of time trying to get this to work until I saw a post that the backend has moved from D3 and moving towards a more generic approach of snapsvg which isn’t a problem – I would like to see snap being used more in fact My needs are different to others - I want to have an svg output for my charts similar to plot.ly but I want to have control on the output and the data Im putting into it. I love the Julia syntax but charting is some what mixed at the moment when looking for svg output Gadfly are 'pretty' charts but there are issues when it comes to clarity of data being overlaid (layers) on top of one another eg a scatter chart – ordering is implemented but there isn’t any docs for this that I can see pointing to how to correctly order a layer Personally I don’t think reinventing the wheel for a Julia charting package is a great use of time(my julia skills arent to that level that I can add to extending existing packages) and it would be easier to lean on some existing charting solution out there at the moment – if there is a better solution Im all ears -- leveraging different html5 charting libraries provide greater scope to what can be achieved using Jypter in the future. Tks M
