GnuPLOT
Alex' A. Interrants
The best programme for RISC OS in plotting seems to be a port of GnuPLOT
(v.3.4) which I found on an old CD of GAG (http://www.gag.de). I cannot
find it in the Internet. There is also a newsgroup
(graphics.apps.gnuplot) belonging the programm. The very powerfull
programme was ported by FKW & ETJ vd Pol and is usable in the desktop.
It also creates drawfiles which is a very important issue for me.
However, it isn't bug-free and wasn't supported for many years. A later
port of GNUPlot doesn't seem to be so good (3.71) and is old, too:
http://home.tiscali.nl/bobbrand/riscos/gnuplot.html
However, it is great to have such a programme. The problem (for me using
RISC OS) is always to get the right informations and ideas to find a
solution for something but I like creative computing ;-)
Alex'
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Terry Duell
<ausser...@mail.com> wrote:
> After a long journey of research.
>
> The best programme for RISC OS in plotting seems to be a port of GnuPLOT
> (v.3.4) which I found on an old CD of GAG (http://www.gag.de). I cannot
> find it in the Internet.
Have you looked at !Tau?
It may not have all the bells and whistles of Gnuplot, but it is a native
RISCOS app and really nice to use.
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Cheers,
Terry
Alex' A. Interrants
"Terry Duell" <tdu...@iinet.net.au> hat geschrieben:
Yes. It seems to be an expert programme. The idea of !Tau (it
works with work sheet) may be a bit different to those of other
programmes but it is a very interesting idea / philosophy.
In general, I miss a programme that does justice to the ideas of
differential calculus for physics and mathematics.
Terry Duell
<ausser...@mail.com> wrote:
>> Have you looked at !Tau?
>> It may not have all the bells and whistles of Gnuplot, but it is a
>> native
>> RISCOS app and really nice to use.
>
> Yes. It seems to be an expert programme. The idea of !Tau (it
> works with work sheet) may be a bit different to those of other
> programmes but it is a very interesting idea / philosophy.
>
> In general, I miss a programme that does justice to the ideas of
> differential calculus for physics and mathematics.
Do you mean something like a maths toolbox, such as Octave for Linux?
If this is what you mean, there is (or was) a RISCOS port of Rlab.
I used that for quite a while, to do calcs and put results into !Tau,
and found it to be quite good. It may satisfy your needs on RISCOS.
These days I tend to use Linux for this sort of work, using Gnuplot,
But I do miss the elegance of !Tau and the simplicity it provides in
defining the plot/graph format.
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Cheers,
Terry
Jim Lesurf
FWIW I also have in the (distant) past tried Rlab and Gnuplot. But these
days I seem happy enough to write simple C/C++ progs for calculations, and
then drop the resulting data into !Tau.
Slainte,
Jim
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Alex' A. Interrants
"Terry Duell" <tdu...@iinet.net.au> hat geschrieben:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:50:26 +1100, Alex' A. Interrants
> <ausser...@mail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Have you looked at !Tau?
> >> It may not have all the bells and whistles of Gnuplot, but it is a
> >> native
> >> RISCOS app and really nice to use.
> >
> > Yes. It seems to be an expert programme. The idea of !Tau (it
> > works with work sheet) may be a bit different to those of other
> > programmes but it is a very interesting idea / philosophy.
> >
> > In general, I miss a programme that does justice to the ideas of
> > differential calculus for physics and mathematics.
>
> Do you mean something like a maths toolbox, such as Octave for Linux?
>
> If this is what you mean, there is (or was) a RISCOS port of Rlab.
> I used that for quite a while, to do calcs and put results into !Tau,
> and found it to be quite good. It may satisfy your needs on RISCOS.
I found !Rlab in the contents of an older CD. It's great. Thank you a
lot for the hint.
> These days I tend to use Linux for this sort of work, using Gnuplot,
> But I do miss the elegance of !Tau and the simplicity it provides in
> defining the plot/graph format.
That's always the point: You can go away to get something more but you
will also have to pay your bill for the move means you'll also lose
something. That is why I don't move away from RISC OS although you
feel often lonely with it. But it does what I need, and other systems
comes with other issues and problems...