Re: Sideways violin plots in one plot cmd?

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> writes:

> Are you trying to avoid the extra step of saving to an array or
> datablock and then replotting? That seems like a totally different
> question from vertical/horizontal layout or coordinate
> transformations.

Yes. Avoiding that extra step is the question in this thread; see the
subject. I've never tried to plot sideways histograms, like Peter did; I
was assuming that this is simple if we plot into a datablock and then
replot, but maybe not.

In any case, here's my problem. I use gnuplot A LOT. But 99% of that
usage is via one of two wrappers (I wrote both of these):

  feedgnuplot (a nice shell interface)
  gnuplotlib (a nice python interface)

Both of these work as thin wrappers around gnuplot, the idea being that
with some "set" commands and a fancy "plot" command you can do anything.
As it currently stands, violin plots are apparently not a part of this
"anything". One could say that my wrappers are silly and not
flexible-enough. Which maybe is true, but realistically speaking, I
don't see ever expanding these tools to use datablocks, since that would
break all sorts of interface assumptions both of these tools are making.
So I can live without violin plots, or maybe go use matplotlib. Which
I'd rather not do.

Any suggestions appreciated.