Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ian Melnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of good graphing software that won't crash with huge > amounts of data? All I need is a nice x-y plot graph, but I have over a > million points. Please consider using gri. http://gri.sourceforge.net/ There are graph examples here (the f

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-08 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Kjetil" == Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Everybody go: apt-get install r-recommended now! :-) I heartily second that! R is an extremely capable and well done system that not only produces very nice graphs, but is well ahead of many commercial/professional statistics sy

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 03:43, Ian Melnick wrote: > Does anyone know of good graphing software that won't crash with huge > amounts of data? All I need is a nice x-y plot graph, but I have over > a million points. Excel has many limitations, as it turns out -- > which I managed to get around,

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-08 Thread John Cuson
i'd take a look at statistics software of one kind or another if you have to do anything else with the data. most programs can readily generate a simple x-y plot. if you have access to sas i'd suggest taking a look at that. if not, r is gnu. if all you need to do is plot, also take a look at gn

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-07 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Ian: I don't have a million points for line graphs, although I do for maps. For line graphs I use "gnuplot" which makes good PostScript (or EPS) images which I can include in publications. For maps, use Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) which will also do first class line graphs. it too generates Post

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-07 Thread Naitik Shah
gnuplot maybe? On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:43:15 -0500 Ian Melnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all > > Does anyone know of good graphing software that won't crash with huge > amounts of data? All I need is a nice x-y plot graph, but I have over > a million points. Excel has many limitations, as i

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-07 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Ian Melnick: > What'd be nice is just a simple text-based program that outputs a nice > postscript-type graph. Does such a program exist? And if so, does it do > anything close to what I need? Have you tried gnuplot? -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You know, I'm just guessing

Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-07 Thread Ian Melnick
Hey all Does anyone know of good graphing software that won't crash with huge amounts of data? All I need is a nice x-y plot graph, but I have over a million points. Excel has many limitations, as it turns out -- which I managed to get around, but not the graph preview pane, which is horribly slow