Simple stuff for a general-purpose matplotlib book

2009-07-13 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi all, as you might know, I'm writing a book about matplotlib. I'm approaching the last chapter, the one I would have liked to dedicate to science. Editors and I, anyhow, decided it would have been too much off-topic for the public we are targetting, so we have instead decided to present a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] cran2deb: 1700+ new Debian / R packages

2009-07-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Announcing cran2deb: 1700+ Debian packages from almost all of CRAN -- Last Friday's presentation at UseR! 2009 was the first really public mention of 'cran2deb'. It provides Debian packages of all of CRAN. It started as Charles'

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cran2deb: 1700+ new Debian / R packages

2009-07-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: We currently build for the testing distribution and the i386 and amd64 architectures. This is now publically useable and we welcome wider testing by Debian users. We hope to extend this to Ubuntu during the summer or fall. Couple quick questions:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cran2deb: 1700+ new Debian / R packages

2009-07-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Don, That was a quick follow-up :) On 13 July 2009 at 14:02, Don Armstrong wrote: | On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | We currently build for the testing distribution and the i386 and | amd64 architectures. This is now publically useable and we welcome | wider testing by

Re: Simple stuff for a general-purpose matplotlib book

2009-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:23:46PM +0200, Sandro Tosi a écrit : Editors and I, anyhow, decided it would have been too much off-topic for the public we are targetting, so we have instead decided to present a series of real world use cases for matplotlib, situations where graphing can be