[Haskell] Drawing charts via Haskell

[Axel Simon]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:14 +0100, Gerbrand van Dieijen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I plan to develop a library in Haskell to draw charts, such as pie
> charts, bar charts and line charts, to visualize data.
> Functionality will be similar to gnuplot, or chart libraries that
> already exist for other languages. The chart library is for (part of)
> my master-thesis project and it is still in its planning phase.
> 
> There are several graphic-libraries for Haskell, but I couldn't find
> any specifically for drawing charts. To avoid that I am reinventing
> the wheel, does anyone know of such a library that is already
> developed or being developed?

There is a diagram editor called blobs based on wxHaskell, although I
doubt that that's any good for your purpose.

Rather that implementing it yourself, why don't you tell gnuplot to
generate a png and display that in a widget? Does it have to be
interactive (selection etc.)?

Axel.