Winston.jl

2D plotting for Julia

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2D plotting for Julia

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Apr 2013	2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
May 2013	2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 2013	2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 2013	2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 2013	2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 2013	2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 2013	2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 2013	2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 2013	2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 2014	2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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idunning·Feb 16, 2014

It is open-source software, not a walled garden - there are going to be multiple options, and they are not going to all be named ["PLOTTINGISHERE$i" for i in 1:4]. If you like MATLAB/pyplot/matplotlib style, PyPlot.jl is for you. If you like ggplot2, Gadfly.jl is for you. If you like gnuplot, Gaston.jl is for you. Finally, but not least, is Winston.jl, which is its own thing altogether. I think in many cases its good for packages that overlap to come together/one to become dominant, but I don't think that applies here. https://github.com/stevengj/PyPlot.jl https://github.com/dcjones/Gadfly.jl https://github.com/mbaz/Gaston.jl https://github.com/nolta/Winston.jl

In Julia for Matlab users

shared4you·Apr 2, 2013

Sufficiently developed? No way. Is it getting there? Yes I think. There are no plotting facilities part of the standard library, but external packages like Winston [1] are available -- but the syntax was verbose for my taste, so I let it pass. According to this SO question[2], there was some web-REPL plotting earlier but it is unmaintained now. [1] https://github.com/nolta/Winston.jl [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14970817/plot-not-defined...

In Comparison of Matlab, R, and Julia for data analysis (2012)