Re: [MLUG] R is nice

["Robert Citek" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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.

Ah, that's what it was.  Thanks.

>  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

Thanks.  I'll look into that one.  On the webpage the example graphs
with the R code is quite nice.

Regards,
- Robert

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