Hi Taco, Thnx for the png conversion :-) On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:56:46 -0600, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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QUESTION 1) Does ConTeXt have a graphical charts module, a la flowcharts module?

Not that I know of (something looking like the png example, I mean).

Ok, are there any suggestions for efficiently doing this kind of thing in ConTeXt/MetaPost? Thnx again Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

Dear syndicate,

So it's not a graphical charts module but I'm curious anyway: Could someone explain why the following sample file apparently does not work or what I am missing?

FWIW: Doesn't work here either. Taco

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

Dear syndicate,

So it's not a graphical charts module but I'm curious anyway: Could someone explain why the following sample file apparently does not work or what I am missing?

did you look into m-chart (flow charts) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

Yes, but that seems mainly geared towards flow charts, not graphical charts. Can m-chart do things like the example png attached at the start of the thread?

i lost that one; actually, willy egger is the most experienced chart user but he's on vacation Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Adam Lindsay wrote:

Hans Hagen wrote:

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Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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Yes, but that seems mainly geared towards flow charts, not graphical charts. Can m-chart do things like the example png attached at the start of the thread?

i lost that one; actually, willy egger is the most experienced chart user but he's on vacation

It was more like a bar graph (with two sets of y-values), nothing to do with m-charts. I thought about mp-graph stuff, but I don't see how it can be (trivially) made to do that visual style.

Have a look at http://www-math.univ-poitiers.fr/~phan/statsmac.html to see if can modify them to get the visual effect that you want. Aditya

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:30:31 -0600, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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Have a look at http://www-math.univ-poitiers.fr/~phan/statsmac.html to see if can modify them to get the visual effect that you want.

Will do: Hans, Aditya, can this be ported to MetaFun or its own m-stats module?

I do not use this too much. I had once tried porting metaobj to context, but found that it is easier to use raw metaobj. However, if you can come up with what you want a module to do, it is relatively straightforward to add context sugar around it. Aditya

The R module (and R program) may also be worth a look for any stats and data visualization tasks. Johan 2006/7/18, Aditya Mahajan :

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Adam Lindsay wrote:

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Hans Hagen wrote:

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Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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Yes, but that seems mainly geared towards flow charts, not graphical charts. Can m-chart do things like the example png attached at the start of the thread?

i lost that one; actually, willy egger is the most experienced chart user but he's on vacation

It was more like a bar graph (with two sets of y-values), nothing to do with m-charts. I thought about mp-graph stuff, but I don't see how it can be (trivially) made to do that visual style.

Have a look at http://www-math.univ-poitiers.fr/~phan/statsmac.html to see if can modify them to get the visual effect that you want.

There is also the ultimate reference http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/Metapost/metapost.html Check out example from 285 onwards.

Also, gnuplot can draw bargraphs easily. Mojca's gnuplot module is functional, so you can also give that a try.

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On 7/19/06, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:07:38 -0600, Johan Sandblom wrote:

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The R module (and R program) may also be worth a look for any stats and data visualization tasks.

What is this exactly? any links? I've heard esoteric references to R on this list but have no idea what it's about ;-)

http://www.r-project.org/ Once you manage to install it you should try texexec --demo m-r.tex The demo examples in m-r.tex are pretty good to give you an idea of what is possible. Mojca