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Plots

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Plotting interface and wrapper for several plotting packages.

This is under development... please add your wishlist for the plotting interface to issue #1.

First, clone the package, and get any plotting packages you need:

Pkg.clone("https://github.com/JuliaPlot/Plots.jl.git")
Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tbreloff/Qwt.jl.git")   # requires pyqt and pyqwt
Pkg.add("Gadfly")  # might also need to Pkg.checkout("Gadfly") and maybe Colors/Compose... I had trouble with it

Now load it in:

using Plots

Do a plot in Qwt, then save a png:

plotter(:Qwt)
plot(1:10)
savepng(ans, Plots.IMG_DIR * "qwt1.png")

which saves:

qwt_plt

Do a plot in Gadfly, then save a png:

plotter(:Gadfly)
plot(1:10)
savepng(ans, Plots.IMG_DIR * "gadfly1.png", 6Gadfly.inch, 4Gadfly.inch)

which saves:

gadfly_plt

Note that you do not need all underlying packages to use this. I use Requires.jl to perform lazy loading of the modules, so there's no initialization until you call plotter(). This has an added benefit that you can call using Plots and it should return quickly... no more waiting for a plotting package to load when you don't even use it. :)

julia> tic(); using Plots; toc();
elapsed time: 0.356158445 seconds

julia> tic(); using Gadfly; toc();
WARNING: using Gadfly.Plots in module Main conflicts with an existing identifier.
elapsed time: 3.1334697 seconds

Author

Thomas Breloff (@tbreloff)