The GoogleCharts.jl package does some of what you seem to have in mind though for a different plotting backend. Something similar in scope for C3.js should be relatively straightforward.
On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 11:55:16 AM UTC-5, Martin Somers wrote: > > 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 >
