Re: Alternative to Microcal Origin?
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 06:22:41PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: Philipp Pagel wrote: Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any free software alternative to Origin, the chart plotting software, with deb packages? I´m looking for suggestions, and trying to figure which one people seem to like more. Depending on your needs there are plenty of options. Some feature a GUI but the most powerful programs usually don't. - R (http://www.r-project.org) - GNUplot (http://www.gnuplot.info) - kst (http://omega.astro.utoronto.ca/kst) - Scigraphica (http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net) - labplot (http://labplot.sourceforge.net) - Scilab (http://www.scilab.org) - Octave (http://www.octave.org) - ploticus (http://ploticus.sourceforge.net) - quickplot (http://quickplot.sourceforge.net) - rlplot (http://rlplot.sourceforge.net) There must be many more which I am not aware of. grace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/) also. I think it has more features than any graphical utility from the ones above. Ionut -- *** * Ionuţ Georgescu * Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden * Phone: +49 (351) 871-2209 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
Re: Alternative to Microcal Origin?
Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any free software alternative to Origin, the chart plotting software, with deb packages? I´m looking for suggestions, and trying to figure which one people seem to like more. Depending on your needs there are plenty of options. Some feature a GUI but the most powerful programs usually don't. - R (http://www.r-project.org) - GNUplot (http://www.gnuplot.info) - kst (http://omega.astro.utoronto.ca/kst) - Scigraphica (http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net) - labplot (http://labplot.sourceforge.net) - Scilab (http://www.scilab.org) - Octave (http://www.octave.org) - ploticus (http://ploticus.sourceforge.net) - quickplot (http://quickplot.sourceforge.net) - rlplot (http://rlplot.sourceforge.net) There must be many more which I am not aware of. Personally, I use R -- it's a bit of a challenge to learn at first but it is incredibly powerfull and totally worth the effort! The following page gives a comprehensive overview for Debian: http://debianlinux.net/science.html#plotting cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-8161-71 2131 Dept. of Genome Oriented BioinformaticsFax. +49-8161-71 2186 Technical University of Munich http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternative to Microcal Origin?
Philipp Pagel wrote: Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any free software alternative to Origin, the chart plotting software, with deb packages? I´m looking for suggestions, and trying to figure which one people seem to like more. Depending on your needs there are plenty of options. Some feature a GUI but the most powerful programs usually don't. - R (http://www.r-project.org) - GNUplot (http://www.gnuplot.info) - kst (http://omega.astro.utoronto.ca/kst) - Scigraphica (http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net) - labplot (http://labplot.sourceforge.net) - Scilab (http://www.scilab.org) - Octave (http://www.octave.org) - ploticus (http://ploticus.sourceforge.net) - quickplot (http://quickplot.sourceforge.net) - rlplot (http://rlplot.sourceforge.net) There must be many more which I am not aware of. Personally, I use R -- it's a bit of a challenge to learn at first but it is incredibly powerfull and totally worth the effort! The following page gives a comprehensive overview for Debian: http://debianlinux.net/science.html#plotting cu Philipp Thanks Philipp! That was thorough. I'll check those. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternative to Microcal Origin?
Bruno Buys wrote: Is there any free software alternative to Origin, the chart plotting software, with deb packages? I´m looking for suggestions, and trying to figure which one people seem to like more. Thanks! I switched from Origin to gnuplot and never regretted it. It's a bit difficult to learn at the beginning, but IMHO much more powerful in the end. Another advantage is that it is easy to semi-automate repetitive data analysis and include useful tricks from the command line. If you save your gnuplot file it's easy to track down (and archive) how the data were treated exactly. Of course having a proprietary file format, Origin should never be used for scientific applications (where you want to archive your data and analysis). xmgrace is gui like Origin, ie. faster to learn, but in the end probably not as good at archiving and/or automating your evaluations. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternative to Microcal Origin?
Bruno Buys wrote: Is there any free software alternative to Origin, the chart plotting software, with deb packages? I´m looking for suggestions, and trying to figure which one people seem to like more. Thanks! I would suggest GNUPlot and, specially, Xmgrace. Basajaun
