On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:14:29PM +0100, Gerbrand van Dieijen wrote:
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?
Not that I know of. I would say, though, that if you write a charting library, it would be great to separate the display from the layout as much as possible, so that different backends could be plugged in. Not as much as gnuplot, but enough that it would be easy to support different gui libraries, or direct postscript output. I'd definitely like to have such a module available. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net