kocks@jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks) (10/20/90)
I am thinking of buying a next machine and I absolutely must have a simple program to plot x against y1,y2,y3 etc. I realize that Mathematica can do this, but it is a real pain because it takes too long to incorporate data from data files (unless I am missing something). Since I will spend almost all of my money on said "NeXT" machine, I cannot afford a nice package like "DAN". I could spend $200.00 for one, though. I currently use xgraph on unix boxes and KaleidaGraph on the Mac. KaleidaGraph is by far the best I have ever seen. I also realize I could port xgraph onto the next using XNeXT. But this, a) misses the point of buying a next machine b) would make me dependent on a probable unstable x-windowing system and c) X-windows takes too much disk space. Any hints? Peter Kocks kocks@jessica.stanford.edu
phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (10/21/90)
*************** In article <1990Oct20.012105.9207@portia.Stanford.EDU>, kocks@jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks) writes... >I am thinking of buying a next machine and I absolutely must have a >simple program to plot x against y1,y2,y3 etc. Doug Bates has written a program for NeXT that can rotate 3-d points, ala datadesk on the mac. It sits in one of the archives, so you can just pull it. Gnu-plot compiles right withou modifications, and you can view it with any tek4014 emulator (of course, postscript has a variety of utilities to convert). X has been ported to the NeXT. In fact, Peter Deutsch will distribute an even more fancy version any day now. So you can probably just take your X utilities, compile it on a Sun-3 and run atom (which converts Sun object files to NeXT object files), or port to NeXT if you want to do a little bit of porting. I am sure I am omitting other programs here, but I hope this makes the point that it's not all barren desert out there. For something commerical: both S (a superb graphical and data handling environment) and WingZ (a fairly nice spreadsheet) have such capabilities. I presume so does Improv, so you will get what you need for free if you buy a NeXT this year. /ivo welch ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (10/21/90)
Doesn't the StatLab demo do this? Or am I missing something? -=EPS=-
cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick) (10/22/90)
I'd like to hear from anyone who has installed and used GNUplot on a NeXT. Does anyone know if the version in /pub/gnu at prep.ai.mit.edu is the same as the version supposedly stored at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu? OK, so I'll summarize to the net if I get some 48 about this. (definition: 48 == wisdom resulting from analysis based on direct personal experience.) -- Chuck Herrick cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu
madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) (10/22/90)
I use GNUPLOT, a public domain (not GNU or GNU-license related) plotting program from Unix written in C. It includes among its myriad of output devices Postscript and Encapsulated Postscript. It produces rather nice looking graphs, and I used its output instead of Mathematica's for my Ph.D. thesis. You can find it at duke.cs.duke.edu in pub. Mark Adler madler@piglet.caltech.edu