[vslist] good plotting program?

[Bryan Jones]

Denis,

Congratulations on your move to OS X.  It's the best OS out there right 
now for 99% of users in terms of usability, security, plug and play 
compatibility, performance etc...etc...etc....  This is coming from a 
person who has used practically all of the platforms out there 
including DOS, Windows, Solaris, IRIX, MacOS and some rather obscure 
operating systems.  In the end, I have been tremendously impressed with 
the stuff coming from Apple recently and their new G5s absolutely are 
the most sophisticated machines out there for the money.  Its system 
architecture is very much like that of the $40k SGI Octane I used a 
while ago for molecular modeling, but the G5 is so much more affordable 
and has much greater performance than that SGI ever did.

At any rate, your needs will really dictate what software you need for 
graphing.  Are you simply graphing out data for plots or are you 
extracting statistics from those data?  There is quite a bit of 
software out there for many levels of graphs and if you are simply 
plotting data, there are many shareware packages out there like 
Histogram.  Take a look at Version tracker to find them.  
http://www.versiontracker.com/index.shtml

We use a package that does MUCH MUCH more than graphing called IDL 
http://www.rsinc.com/ , but for simple graphing needs, Kaleidagraph 
http://kaleidagraph.com is really one of the traditional standbys.  
Delta Graph http://www.redrocksw.com/deltagraph/ is quite nice on OS X, 
and IgorPro from Wavemetrics is really quite nice and exceedingly 
capable.  http://www.wavemetrics.com/

Best Regards,


Bryan

On Jul 25, 2004, at 3:07 PM, Denis Pelli wrote:

> hi all
>
> i've finally taken the plunge into mac os x (and love it).
>
> can anyone recommend a good plotting program, to make graphs?



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