I asked
>Dear Allstat members
>
>I am interested in finding out which charting/graphing/mapping packages
>list members use. I am not so much concerned with exploratory data
>analysis type packages or whizzy graphics. Rather I am more interested in
looking
>for packages that allow standard charts to be produced in house styles,
>probably from a linked spreadsheet and as exported as camera ready copy to
>be tied in with tables and text through a desk top publishing package.
>
>Any comments to [log in to unmask]
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Many thanks for the all the responses, apologies for not sending individual
replies.
Ted
Summary
It seems that about half of respondents are using the graphics modules in
their statistical/mathematical packages, such as GENSTAT, MINITAB, SAS,
SPLUS, MATLAB, MATHCAD, STATA, STATISTICA and SPSS. Most of these packages
were described as being able to produce a wide variety of charts and to
link together with other packages such as excel and (excluding first two)
DTP packages, very easily.
Amongst dedicated charting packages DeltaGraph (from SPSS), SigmaPlot (from
Jandel Scientific or is it SPSS?) , and MapInfo were strongly recommended.
One package that I hadn't heard of, but which several people mentioned was
AXUM. Gnu-Plot was also mentioned as a package which could export
postscript format into DTP packages and presumably with a name like GNU is
the cheapest!
We are already coming to the conclusion that Excel is not in itself
sufficient to produce camera ready copy, due amongst other factors, to the
difficulties of achieving colour separation for pantone colours, and the
WYSINWYP (What-You-See-Is-Not-What-You-Print) technology. However an
interesting alternative suggested was UNISTAT which can be used as an
add-in to Excel.
Other packages mentioned were
Corel Draw
PowerPoint
P-FIG (or F-PIG or something similar?), .
But I was surprised that no one mentioned Harvard Graphics - does that
still exist?
Many thanks again.
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