Re: plot matrix?

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

[snip]

> The end result I was aiming for when last I looked at this was
> to generate heatmaps directly from a csv file (e.g. from excel),
> where the row and column categories had headers.  I'll draw this
> here as in-line data with whitespace.   The command below doesn't
> work, of course, but I was trying to understand the whole matrix
> mechanism well enough to see if I could tweak things to make it work:
>
> plot "-" matrix using xticlabels(0):yticlabels(0) with image
>   xx  A   B   C
>    X  0   2   1
>    Y  2   0   1
>    Z  1   1   2
>
> I forget now why I wanted it to be a 'plot' command rather than 'splot'.
> Maybe because of the limited control over tic label placement in 3D.
> Or maybe because the code at first looked slightly less confusing.

That seems to go back to my point - this kind of graph
is exactly what I always thought the splot command
specfically was for.

So, if anything, I would think it makes sense to beef up
splot (ticmarks, whatever), rather than overload plot
with redundant functionality. (?)