• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yeah but once you’ve done it once in R you can just dump your data again, update the theme and boom, done again.

    Also 30 minutes? maybe 3.

  • scrion@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You’ll get used to it and it will only take a couple of minutes. And I honestly believe nothing comes close to ggplot2 in terms of quality, and I don’t use R for anything else.

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        6 months ago

        Plots are typical composed, and when writing a paper (I insert them mostly into TeX publications) I do find the quality of the resulting plot is just so much more refined.

        Seaborn is indeed closer and was definitely inspired by ggplot2 in some areas, but IMHO, it’s still not 100% there visually. I’m very much a Python user and would love it to be, but when I’m, let’s say, publishing a book, I’d always go back to ggplot2 - when preparing a paper for a lab class, seaborn is probably fine.

    • blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Plotly has the most pain-in-the-ass syntax compared to ggplot2 IMHO. And that’s from a guy who uses a tonne of plotly.

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    6 months ago

    Does anyone know where the image is from? I know I’ve seen the movie or whatever it is but just can’t remember.

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    6 months ago

    Did anyone read the grammar of graphics paper from Hadley Wickham? I kind of enjoyed it a lot, and got to know what’s the power source really. I’m amazed so many software libraries came to reinvent compossibility in such unergonomic ways… But it’s nice to have options.

    I think I might prefer base R over matplotlib though… :p