Re: [vox-tech] Export MySQL DB to flat file

2004-10-26 Thread matthew lange
Dylan, Even if I knew how to make flat files from MySQL, I wouldn't tell you...and here's why: I take particular interest in this article. While I tend to eschew MS as a whole (...yeah right, as my email comes from Hotmail--well FYI hotheads [some of whom I've heard from privately], I got

Re: [vox-tech] Export MySQL DB to flat file

2004-10-26 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, matthew lange wrote: [...] That said...these people are complete ignoramuses. If they don't realize that all they need is an ODBC driver for MySQL in order to access the DB directly from MSSQL, (which is always more preferable than converting the data to flat files),

[vox-tech] Histograms on GNU/Linux?

2004-10-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I have a few numbers in OpenOffice that I'd like to make a histogram of. It appears that OO has no histogram plotter. Gnuplot doesn't seem to have one either (there appears to be a patch, but I'd rather not go down that road unless I have to). It appears that Gnumeric can do histograms, but

Re: [vox-tech] Histograms on GNU/Linux?

2004-10-26 Thread David Hummel
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:13:04PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: How do people do histograms on Linux (other than than by hand?) R will allow you to express your data in just about any way imagineable: http://www.r-project.org/ http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#Graphics

Re: [vox-tech] Histograms on GNU/Linux?

2004-10-26 Thread Jonathan Stickel
I use Octave for 99% of my numerical work lately (www.octave.org). It has functions to produce histogram/bar plots. By default it uses gnuplot as its external plotter. Jonathan Peter Jay Salzman wrote: I have a few numbers in OpenOffice that I'd like to make a histogram of. It appears that OO

Re: [vox-tech] Histograms on GNU/Linux?

2004-10-26 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:13:04 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) wrote: I have a few numbers in OpenOffice that I'd like to make a histogram of. It appears that OO has no histogram plotter. Gnuplot doesn't seem to have one either (there appears to be a patch, but I'd rather not go

Re: [vox-tech] Histograms on GNU/Linux?

2004-10-26 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 10:13 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: I have a few numbers in OpenOffice that I'd like to make a histogram of. It appears that OO has no histogram plotter. Gnuplot doesn't seem to have one either (there appears to be a patch, but I'd rather not go down that road

Re: [vox-tech] Histograms on GNU/Linux?

2004-10-26 Thread Tim Riley
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: I have a few numbers in OpenOffice that I'd like to make a histogram of. snip How do people do histograms on Linux (other than than by hand?) I use grace; however, it may overkill for just a few numbers. See http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ . snip

Re: [vox-tech] Histograms on GNU/Linux?

2004-10-26 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, David Hummel wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:13:04PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: How do people do histograms on Linux (other than than by hand?) R will allow you to express your data in just about any way imagineable: http://www.r-project.org/

Re: [vox-tech] Histograms on GNU/Linux?

2004-10-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:24:38PM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: After I saw it referred to here, and a stats grad student recommended it, I have been using R quite a bit recently... but I am pretty sure I have barely scratched the surface. It is kind of a cross between Perl and Octave with