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- From: harold@wam.umd.edu (James B. Harold)
- Subject: Re: Scientifical graphic software
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:35:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.165412.23731@news.columbia.edu> qiang@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Qiang Zheng) writes:
- >Sorry if somebody has posted this before. My question are:
- >
- >1. Does the new Quattro Pro for Windows do error bar?
-
- This is one of the (several) things about QP4W which I find a
- little sad. QP4W does not (as far as I can tell) do error
- bars. It _does_ do stock market graphs, which, surprise, surprise,
- look _just_like_ error bars (opening and closing prices for the
- day marked by horizontal lines, connected by a vertical line).
- You can hack around a bit and fake error bars, but only by
- plotting your data as a line graph. I don't see a way to
- do it with an XY (scatter) plot.
-
- Now I realize that the scientific community isn't a high priority
- with many software companies, but come'on...the code is
- basically already written. How hard would it have been to
- include error bars (in fact, I talked to guy with another
- company which specializes in scientific graphing, and they
- said that's precisely what they do...they use the same code
- for the stock market graphs and error bars).
-
- 'Course, if I'm wrong, I'd be happy to hear how to do this... :-)
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-
- James Harold "There is always an easy solution to
- harold@wam.umd.edu every human problem -- neat, plausible,
- and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
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