Re: [R] Calling Gnuplot from R

2010-07-09 Thread Tal Galili
Dear Greg, I keep on being amazed at the abundance of functions you have packed into the TeachingDemos package - thank you! Tal Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com

Re: [R] Calling Gnuplot from R

2010-07-09 Thread Greg Snow
There is a basic interface between R and gnuplot in the TeachingDemos package, see ?gp.open Not much interest has been shown in this, so it is still pretty alpha level, but you can send your R data to gnuplot and have it create a basic plot. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Cen

Re: [R] Calling Gnuplot from R

2010-07-08 Thread Erik Iverson
See this page for an alternative approach. It shows how you can use R with gnuplot. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/examples/data-collection-analysis.php Octave is also supported by org-babel. Matt Shotwell wrote: I recently wrote a small R function to draw simple ASCII scatterpl

Re: [R] Calling Gnuplot from R

2010-07-08 Thread Matt Shotwell
I recently wrote a small R function to draw simple ASCII scatterplots. http://biostatmatt.com/archives/491 Bill Harris commented that the plots reminded him of the "dumb" terminal of Gnuplot. I think it would be really neat to have an R graphics driver to Gnuplot in order to generate more complete

Re: [R] Calling Gnuplot from R

2010-07-08 Thread Erik Iverson
If you use Emacs, you can use org-mode with org-babel to facilitate this... I'll refrain from asking why :). See: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/index.php Christopher Desjardins wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to call Gnuplot from R and/or if anyone can recommend a packa