Re: Tukey with tikz

Hi Kjell,

I understand and respect your reasoning. I wanted to add one  
observation: LaTeX and R have been tightly integrated. See (for two  
examples among many): http://www.stat.umn.edu/~charlie/Sweave/ and  
http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/04.html It is true that getting the  
right font for display in R is not trivial but there are facilities  
for generating mathematical expressions in R graphics as well: See  
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf , p. 66.

On May 28, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Kjell Magne Fauske wrote:

> On 5/26/07, Michael Kubovy <kubovy <at> virginia.edu> wrote:
>
>> I've been watching with admiration the growth of tools for TikZ.  
>> However, I wonder how efficient it is to develop TikZ tools to  
>> draw statistical graphics that are created so flexibly and  
>> elegantly in
>> the free statistical language R ( http://addictedtor.free.fr/  
>> graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=45 ). Surely wonderful  
>> representations such as the bagplot 2D generalization of the boxplot
>> ( http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php? 
>> graph=112 ) is unlikely to be reproduced in TikZ, so why even go  
>> down this road?
>
> You ask an interesting question. Alain has already provided  
> excellent answers. I will add a few thoughts on this matter as well.
>
> Programs like R and Matlab has plotting capabilities that are hard  
> to match using  PGF and TikZ alone. This is mainly due to TeX