On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:05 PM, gerhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To play devil's advocate: > should the current 2D plotting package be maintained and upgrated > (a lot of work!), or might it be preferable > to slip another graphics engine underneath > (maintaining the API)?
It would indeed be preferable to slip another graphics engine underneath so we just have to maintain an API. In fact that is exactly what we already *did*. Sage's 2d graphics are just an API and the graphics engine underneath is matplotlib, which is the canonical choice for 2d plotting for Python: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ > Since R will be a standard package, ^^^^^^^^ R *is* a standard package in Sage, and I hope will always remain so. > using R graphics would be an option: > statisticians need good graphics capabilities, > and have made a lot of effort. > > -gerhard > > Note R also has an addon rggobi that allows data brushing. > It might also be of interest R definitely has lots of cool graphics capabilities, and I really hope we can vastly improve the usability of them from Sage. It's even possible that the R foundation will select a Google Summer of Code project on doing exactly this and more (but we'll see); I'm strongly voting for it. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
