On 16-Jun-2013 17:30:52 Anthony Anson wrote:
On 16/06/13 17:54, mark fernandes (IFR) wrote:
Gnuplot is really good for doing quality plots (Good enough for scientific papers). The output terminals include screen, LaTEX, png, SVG, EPS and PDF.
The dreaded Wackypedia has a reasonable amount of info (I would especially recommend the IBM tutorial - it really got me started with GNUplot) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnuplot If you need a non-Windows GUI there is a Java GUI for GNUplot (I haven't tried it so YMMV) see http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgp/
Hope that this helps,
Thanks - I'll compare it with LO Calc.
-- Tony http://www.girolle.co.uk/
If I had a typical dataset to work with, I would like to try implementing this project using groff (in particular the 'pic' preprocessor).
I gather that it would consist of 24 hours of blood pressure data, over a month, with a reading taken potentially every half hour on each day (so maximum of 31*24*2 = 1488 readings in a month), with the strong possibility that some (or many?) of them may be missing.
And is it just one BP reading at a time (e.g. diastolic) or would it be both diastolic and systolic for each reading?
One of the crucial aspects of this kind of thing is how one wants it to look, and how easily readable one wants it to be! This can be more readily customised using groff+pic than with many other data/plotting packages (and, in particular, setting up customised graphics using the generally excellent R[*] statistical package can involve many hours wandering disorientedly through a maze of help pages ... ).
Best wishes, Ted.
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