[Haskell-cafe] Candlestick charts

[Alexander McPhail]

Hi,

The rationale behind developing the plot package is a desire to target users
as well as programmers.

The plot interface provides monadic construction of figures, very similar in
style to the way a gnuplot script or matlab script/function would be
structured (especially with the Simple interface).  I am looking forward to
being able to use GHCi instead of matlab, and the plot-gtk companion package
provides a way to incrementally update a plot on screen.  I think that this
is where the design difference occurs.

Looking at the Chart interface, I was confronted with myriad data types and
functions.  Yes, the plots look nice, but, as I have been told, the Chart
interface can be overwhelming for a mathematics user cf. haskell
programmerr.

Also, the plot package uses Pango, so unicode should work out of the box
(for greek symbols and the like).

Cheers,

Vivian


On 1 October 2010 18:24, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 1 October 2010 15:12, Vivian McPhail
> <haskell.vivian.mcphail at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >>Message-ID: <AANLkTinROzNiqF4+yKxOfHo0FB=3B_7tfduX=
> vVbggYC at mail.gmail.com>
> >>
> >>Hi -
> >>
> >>What are the libraries to use in Haskell to generate a stock
> >>candlestick chart like
> >>http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=SPY&p=D&b=5&g=5&id=p05007254056
> >>
> >>I will use Finance-Quote-Yahoo to get the quote data from Yahoo.
> >>
> >>thanks for all your help.
> > The plot 0.1.1 package supports candle and whisker charts.
> >
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/plot
>
> That URL should of course be http://hackage.haskell.org/package/plot
>
> However, I'm curious: what is the rationale behind you developing plot
> rather than you helping Tim extend Chart?
>
>
> --
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
> IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
>



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