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- README.PLPLOT:
-
- Beginning with version 0.96, RLaB has built-in plotting
- support. This support can only be utilized if you have the
- Plplot library installed on your system. Plplot is good stuff,
- not only for RLaB. So, if you don't have it already it is
- definitely worthwhile. You can get it at dino.ph.utexas.edu in
- the plplot directory. In order to use the plplot libraries
- with RLaB you must make and install the DOUBLE PRECISION
- version of plplot. RLaB's configure will look for either
- libplplotdX.a or libplplotdtk.a, and configure accordingly. It
- is also recommended that you install the Plplot distribution
- in its own directory, as opposed to putting it in
- /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, etc... At the bottom of this
- file are some recommended options for running Plplot's
- configure.
-
- If you do not have the plplot libraries installed on your
- system, then RLaB will configure itself to use the Gnuplot
- plot interface.
-
- You can get help on plotting by typing `help plot' at the RLaB
- prompt (if you compiled RLaB to use Plplot). The RLaB Primer
- has an introduction to plotting, and there are several
- plotting examples in the examples directory.
-
- The Plplot plotting has been implemented as a set of low-level
- interface functions to the Plplot API. These functions mimic
- the Plplot API, and provide access to most of the Plplot
- features. The best way to understand this setup is to read the
- Plplot manual, and use the file misc/plplot.r as a
- reference.
-
- The user plot interface is fairly high level. It consists of
- plot functions written in RLaB that use the low-level
- interface. This design works well - it provides the causal
- user with an easy-to-use plot capability, and the more
- in-depth user with the ability to create many different types
- of plots.
-
- Enjoy,
- Ian Searle
-
-
- Recommended Plplot Configuration Usage. As you will note,
- Plplot intallation is the same on most systems, at least the
- ones I have tried.
-
- SVR4/386:
- configure --with-double --prefix=/usr/local/plplot --without-shlib \
- --disable-f77 --with-gcc
-
- Solaris 2.3 (SunOS-5.3)
- configure --with-double --without-shlib --disable-f77 \
- --prefix=/usr/local/plplot
-
- SunOS-4.1.3
- configure --with-double --prefix=/usr/local/plplot --without-shlib \
- --disable-f77 --with-gcc
-
- HP-UX:
- configure --with-double --prefix=/usr/local/plplot --without-shlib \
- --disable-f77
-