Re:Basic Scripting with Awk and Gnuplot
by hatmatrix on Friday January 22, 2021 @05:58AM
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Just curious but why go for gnuplot (and awk) rather than python or R? At some point you run up to some limit where you want a bit more capability. I don't know that the learning curve is that much less for awk + gnuplot?
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Re:Basic Scripting with Awk and Gnuplot
by leephillips on Friday January 22, 2021 @08:35AM
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Gnuplot (and awk) have several advantages. It’s faster, especially for large datasets; it’s language-independent and can be used through pipes with any language, so the plotting solution you develop can go with you as you change your simulation language; it’s designed to be automated, plot over the network, etc.