Gadfly.jl

Gadfly is a system for plotting and visualization written in Julia. It is based largely on Hadley Wickhams's ggplot2 for R and Leland Wilkinson's book The Grammar of Graphics. It was Daniel C. Jones' brainchild and is now maintained by the community.

Package features

• Renders publication quality graphics to SVG, PNG, Postscript, and PDF

• Intuitive and consistent plotting interface

• Works with IJulia out of the box

• Tight integration with DataFrames.jl

• Interactivity like panning, zooming, toggling powered by Snap.svg

• Supports a large number of common plot types

Quickstart

The latest release of Gadfly can be installed from the Julia REPL prompt with

julia> Pkg.add("Gadfly")

This installs the package and any missing dependencies. Gadfly can be loaded with

julia> using Gadfly

See the Plotting for more information on plot invocations.

Manual outline

• Plotting
• Stacks and Layers
• Backends
• Themes