FnuPlot: Cross-platform charting with gnuplot

There is a bunch of visualization and charting libraries for F#. Sadly, perhaps the most advanced one, F# Charting, does not work particularly well outside of Windows at the moment. There are also some work-in-progress libraries based on HTML like Foogle Charts and FsPlot, which are cross-platform, but not quite ready yet.

Before Christmas, I got a notification from GitHub about a pull request for a simple gnuplot wrapper that I wrote a long time ago (and which used to be carfully hidden on CodePlex).

The library is incomplete and I don't expect to dedicate too much time to maintaining it, but it works quite nicely for basic charts and so I though I'd add the ProjectScaffold structure, do a few tweaks and make it available as a modern F# project.

Published: Thursday, 15 January 2015, 5:58 PM
Tags: f#, fslab, data science
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Trainings, writing & consulting

I'm a frequent speaker at F# and .NET events, founding member of the F# Foundation author of C# and F# book, numerous articles and a StackOverflow addict. I have been Microsoft C# MVP since 2004 and I used F# since early Microsoft Research versions.

Have you seen the F# testimonials and are you thinking about learning and using F# of functional techniques?

• F# books. I wrote Real World Functional Prog­ramming that explains functional concepts using C# and F# and I'm working on F# Deep Dives.
• Public courses. Together with Phil Trelford, we run regular public F# courses in New York and London. For more, see Fast Track to F# at SkillsMatter.
• Consulting and trainings. I also provide private F# trainings and consulting through my company Dual Notion ltd. If you are interested email me!

Research & teaching

I'm interested in a wide range of topics in programming languages, ranging from category theory, comonads, reactive and distributed programming to scientific computing and working with data.

I like working on topics inspired by practical problems. I created a web framework for F# that inspired commercial projects like WebSharper and my experimental F# extensions can be tested live on tryjoinads.org.

• Coeffects: Unified static analysis of context-dependence (PDF) is our recent paper (published at ICALP 2013) that discusses the theory of context-dependent computations in details.
• Academic web page has links to other published papers, work-in-progress drafts, research talks and also information about projects and courses that I supervised.