looking for plotting package

Hi,
I've been looking around Versiontracker and sourceforge for shareware
and freeware plotting apps. To be specific, I'm looking for tools that
can plot a set of data points (x-y, or x-y-z, or multiple y for one x,
etc) from a database or file. There are plenty of tools which plot an
equation, but that's not what I want.

So far about the best I've found is RLPLOT at sourceforge, but it
crashes rather a lot (and yes, I've got Qt 3.3.3 installed under OS X
10.3.7).

Any recommendations? Or should I stick with the graphing capabilities
inside Excel or OpenOffice?

thanks for any tips
Carl

In article <carl->,
Carl Witthoft <> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been looking around Versiontracker and sourceforge for shareware
> and freeware plotting apps. To be specific, I'm looking for tools that
> can plot a set of data points (x-y, or x-y-z, or multiple y for one x,
> etc) from a database or file. There are plenty of tools which plot an
> equation, but that's not what I want.
>
> So far about the best I've found is RLPLOT at sourceforge, but it
> crashes rather a lot (and yes, I've got Qt 3.3.3 installed under OS X
> 10.3.7).
>
> Any recommendations? Or should I stick with the graphing capabilities
> inside Excel or OpenOffice?

Gnuplot. You can either get a version that requires X11 from
<http://fink.sf.net/>, or a Carbonized version through a Google search
on "gnuplot carbon".

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In article <tph-26A9D4.15083811022005@localhost>,
Tom Harrington <> wrote:

> In article <carl->,
> Carl Witthoft <> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I've been looking around Versiontracker and sourceforge for shareware
> > and freeware plotting apps. To be specific, I'm looking for tools that
> > can plot a set of data points (x-y, or x-y-z, or multiple y for one x,
> > etc) from a database or file. There are plenty of tools which plot an
> > equation, but that's not what I want.
> >
> > So far about the best I've found is RLPLOT at sourceforge, but it
> > crashes rather a lot (and yes, I've got Qt 3.3.3 installed under OS X
> > 10.3.7).
> >
> > Any recommendations? Or should I stick with the graphing capabilities
> > inside Excel or OpenOffice?
>
> Gnuplot. You can either get a version that requires X11 from
> <http://fink.sf.net/>, or a Carbonized version through a Google search
> on "gnuplot carbon".

Thanks, Tom. Looks like the X11-based version is far more advanced &
up-to-date. What the heck, if I can run OO.o under X11, I can run
gnuplot :-)

Carl

In article <carl->,
Carl Witthoft <> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been looking around Versiontracker and sourceforge for shareware
> and freeware plotting apps. To be specific, I'm looking for tools that
> can plot a set of data points (x-y, or x-y-z, or multiple y for one x,
> etc) from a database or file. There are plenty of tools which plot an
> equation, but that's not what I want.
>
> So far about the best I've found is RLPLOT at sourceforge, but it
> crashes rather a lot (and yes, I've got Qt 3.3.3 installed under OS X
> 10.3.7).
>
> Any recommendations? Or should I stick with the graphing capabilities
> inside Excel or OpenOffice?
>
> thanks for any tips
> Carl

MatPlotLib is excellent.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

I installed it via the SciSoft package that they mention in the OS X
installation section.

J.S.

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