Re: Plotting in Emacs?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2023-05-20, at 10:26, Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski [2023-04-18 Tue 06:16] wrote:
>
>> The reason I want this is that I weigh myself every day, I put the
>> datapoints in an Org mode table (and use Org spreadsheet to compute
>> moving averages), and now I'd like to see a nice chart telling me
>> whether my diet works and I'm losing weight.  So, calculating linear
>> regression (pretty easy with Org mode) and plotting a regression line
>> would also be cool.
>
>
> Plotting == gnuplot. You got to have a library that creates plots out of
> data. Here is a snippet I use for the same purpose:

Well, as I said in my message, I explicitly want to avoid external
dependencies (like gnuplot).  And for a solution using gnuplot, showing
the plot in the Emacs buffer is a must.

That said, chart.el (recommended elsewhere in this thread) is definitely
one interesting possibility.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl