Re: Gnumeric & graphing

[January Weiner 3 <jweiner1 ix urz uni-heidelberg de>]

Hi,

> Sorry if I missed previous responses to this post, but I don't think I
> saw any.

Neither did I :-)

> Gnumeric is in most ways an excellent, even superior, alternative to
> MS Excel (and StarOffice/OpenOffice).  The one major lack, as I see
> it, is the capacity to produce graphs/charts, which is a rather
> essential aspect of a spreadsheet program from the standpoint of many
> users, but which has apparently been given short shrift in gnumeric
> development.

Gnumeric has nice tools to do statistical analyses, but they are in some
aspects sligthly less advanced then what I would need.  I use R for that
purpose.  Most of the other additional features I do not use in my
everydays work.

What I do badly need, however, as a scientist, is a GUI userfriendly
graphing program and an Excel-like spreadsheet.  Incidently, Excel is not
perfect either, when it comes to graphing, because it targets a slightly
different audience.  Gnuplot is nice, but it has its limitations, not to
mention the lack of a biologist-friendly interface :-)  The graphing
capabilities of R are almost perfect, but, again, the issue is the
interface -- I tend to spend too much time on browsing the manuals while
generating even simple charts.

Sadly, I have not time and enough capabilities to help fixing the issue,
and I have already devoted some time to develop OS software for my
scientific playground.  So I'll just have to check in next year :-)

j.

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