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R’s data visualization capabilities are heads and shoulders above Matlab’s, and it’s free and open source.
by tylermw 4y ago
R’s data visualization capabilities are heads and shoulders above Matlab’s, and it’s free and open source.
- jhbadger 4y agoYes, once you understand the idea of a "grammar of graphics", ggplot is really the best and most flexible plotting system available. There's a reason that people have tried to clone it (with varying degrees of success) as libraries for python and Julia.
- dagw 4y agoFor what it's worth there is a "grammar of graphics" library for Matlab as well, called gramm
- 7thaccount 4y agoCan you zoom in and out on the R plots? I've used ggplot2 and it didn't seem heads and shoulders above any of the other major tools (Matplotlib and the other Python plotting libraries or Matlab) and was way behind what you can do with .NET.
- IshKebab 4y agoFor publication, sure. For research, no chance.
- tylermw 4y agoI see no distinction there.