Re: [MLUG] R is nice

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Robert Citek wrote:

> What about gnuplot?  IIRC, R uses gnuplot as the backend for its graphs. 
> But maybe that's a false memory.


That seems to be a false memory.  Octave is the one that uses gnuplot. 
By the way, much to my amazement (when I found out a few years ago), 
gnuplot has nothing to do with GNU and it doesn't even have a GPL 
compatible license:

http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/faq.html#SECTION00037000000000000000

More from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnuplot

   Despite gnuplot's name, it is not part of or related to the GNU system
   (hence the decision to use a lowercase 'g') and it is not distributed
   under the GPL. However some GNU packages do use gnuplot.

   The title of this program was originally chosen to avoid conflicts with
   a program called newplot, and was originally a compromise between
   llamaplot and nplot.

However, R is GPL 2+.  The graphics engine is just once piece of the 
larger system.  I recommend this book:

P. Murrell (2005), R Graphics, Chapman & Hall/CRC, ISBN: 1-584-88486-X,
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/rgraphics.html

Mike

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