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Unix Graphing Programs?

Posted by Cliff on from the pretty-informational-pictures dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "For university I am looking for a program to make some nice 2D or 3D graphs to represent some data for statistics. I am currently using RedHat Fedora as my Linux distro but KChart, Gnumeric, OpenOffice, and the other ones I found weren't suitable. It would be nice if the "template" was easily configurable so I could standarize all of my work. i.e. have the actual value next to the bar etc.. It's mainly bar graphs that I need. Does anyone have any recommendations for good easy Linux programs to graph general data? professor didn't have any ideas for Linux."

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  1. use apt by richi(3) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    $ apt-cache search graph|grep graph|grep perl
    libcrypt-blowfish-perl - Blowfish cryptography for Perl
    libg20-perl - g2 2D graphics library (Perl module)
    libgd-graph-perl - Graph Plotting Module for Perl 5
    libgd-graph3d-perl - Create 3D Graphs with GD and GD::Graph
    libgeography-nationalgrid-perl - Class for a point and to transform coordinate systems
    libgraph-perl - graph operations
    libgraphics-colordeficiency-perl - Color Deficiency Simulation
    libgraphics-colornames-perl - defines RGB values for common color names
    libgraphics-colorobject-perl - convert color specifications between color spaces
    libgraphviz-perl - Perl interface to the GraphViz graphing tool
    libsvg-tt-graph-perl - create SVG graphs from Perl
    libtext-format-perl - Perl module for formatting (text) paragraphs
    perl-tk - Perl module providing the Tk graphics library.
    perlmagick - A perl interface to the libMagick graphics routines
    libgifgraph-perl - perl GIFgraph - Graph Plotting Module for Perl 5.

  2. VPython by scherbi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    VPython does some neat tricks, mostly 3D, but some 2D as well:
    http://vpython.org/

    ChartDirector produces snazzy looking charts, but Edward Tufte proably would not care for them:
    http://www.advsofteng.com/

  3. Re:gnuplot of course! by JFitzsimmons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, universities generally (try to) specialize in smart people, or failing that, people that are willing to at least put some effort into things and figure stuff out. The commandline is likely to work better for people who are willing to put the effort into learning it.

    --
    Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. -Anonymous
  4. Veusz by xiox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would recommend my own program Veusz! It is written in Python and is designed for publication-quality output. It doesn't do 3D plotting however, but I think the user interface is quite nice.

    Jeremy