What about tikz?
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scrion@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You’ll get used to it and it will only take a couple of minutes. And I honestly believe nothing comes close to ggplot2 in terms of quality, and I don’t use R for anything else.
ftbd@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s a beautiful graph. And the stats are great. But I’m in industry so I use excel
Eheran@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How does it compare to matplotlib?
scrion@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Plots are typical composed, and when writing a paper (I insert them mostly into TeX publications) I do find the quality of the resulting plot is just so much more refined.
Seaborn is indeed closer and was definitely inspired by ggplot2 in some areas, but IMHO, it’s still not 100% there visually. I’m very much a Python user and would love it to be, but when I’m, let’s say, publishing a book, I’d always go back to ggplot2 - when preparing a paper for a lab class, seaborn is probably fine.
Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
It’s a lot more like Seaborn. It produces gorgeous plots with a lovely syntax that is quick and easy to use, but it’s not a full drawing toolkit like matplotlib.
If I need the plot to have a very precise aesthetic, mpl is great. But if I want a high quality statistical plot that looks great. ggplot2 will do it in about 2 seconds.
I have no idea how op thinks they could make a decent histogram any quicker than
ggplot(data) + geom_histogram(x= x). I mean you don’t even have to leave your shell/editor or extract the SQL into CSV.