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I was right, R is a terrible package. I wasted an entire hour or two trying to figure out how to put two series onto a single plot. Finally I gave up, installed gnuplot, and had the whole damn thing worked out in about 20 minutes.
R is probably great if you already know it. But the documentation is bad even by Unix standards. Gnuplot did exactly what I needed, and was faster to install, learn, and run.
My paper is submitted. It has a couple of [?] instead of real references, because I just couldn't find all the things Karsten suggested I cite in time. But I did get the crappy screen-cap diagrams replaced with vector ones (barely), and made up an experiment and got some meaningful results to talk about. (I'm still uncomfortable with the idea of running experiments on this, because no experiment really says anything, but I understand the need to anyway.)
Here's hoping the reviewers see past its foibles and think it's as good as Karsten makes it sound like it will be.
R is probably great if you already know it. But the documentation is bad even by Unix standards. Gnuplot did exactly what I needed, and was faster to install, learn, and run.
My paper is submitted. It has a couple of [?] instead of real references, because I just couldn't find all the things Karsten suggested I cite in time. But I did get the crappy screen-cap diagrams replaced with vector ones (barely), and made up an experiment and got some meaningful results to talk about. (I'm still uncomfortable with the idea of running experiments on this, because no experiment really says anything, but I understand the need to anyway.)
Here's hoping the reviewers see past its foibles and think it's as good as Karsten makes it sound like it will be.