Plots.jl – A User Extendable Plotting API for the Julia Programming Language
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Plots.jl – A User Extendable Plotting API for the Julia Programming Language. / Christ, Simon; Schwabeneder, Daniel; Rackauckas, Christopher; Borregaard, Michael Krabbe; Breloff, Thomas.
In: Journal of open research soft ware, Vol. 11, No. 1, 5, 2023.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Plots.jl – A User Extendable Plotting API for the Julia Programming Language
AU - Christ, Simon
AU - Schwabeneder, Daniel
AU - Rackauckas, Christopher
AU - Borregaard, Michael Krabbe
AU - Breloff, Thomas
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023, Neuropsychological Trends. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - There are many excellent plotting libraries. Each excels at a specific use case: one is particularly suited for creating printable 2D figures for publication, another for generating interactive 3D graphics, while a third may have excellent LaTeX integration or be ideal for creating dashboards on the web. The aim of Plots.jl is to enable the user to use the same syntax to interact with a range of different plotting libraries, making it possible to change the library that does the actual plotting (the backend) without needing to touch the code that creates the content – and without having to learn multiple application programming interfaces (API). This is achieved by separating the specification of the plot from the implementation of the graphical backend. This plot specification is extendable by a recipe system that allows package authors and users to create new types of plots, as well as to specify how to plot any type of object (e.g. a statistical model, a map, a phylogenetic tree or the solution to a system of differential equations) without depending on the Plots.jl package. This design supports a modular ecosystem structure for plotting and yields a high code reuse potential across the entire Julia package ecosystem. Plots.jl is publicly available at https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl.
AB - There are many excellent plotting libraries. Each excels at a specific use case: one is particularly suited for creating printable 2D figures for publication, another for generating interactive 3D graphics, while a third may have excellent LaTeX integration or be ideal for creating dashboards on the web. The aim of Plots.jl is to enable the user to use the same syntax to interact with a range of different plotting libraries, making it possible to change the library that does the actual plotting (the backend) without needing to touch the code that creates the content – and without having to learn multiple application programming interfaces (API). This is achieved by separating the specification of the plot from the implementation of the graphical backend. This plot specification is extendable by a recipe system that allows package authors and users to create new types of plots, as well as to specify how to plot any type of object (e.g. a statistical model, a map, a phylogenetic tree or the solution to a system of differential equations) without depending on the Plots.jl package. This design supports a modular ecosystem structure for plotting and yields a high code reuse potential across the entire Julia package ecosystem. Plots.jl is publicly available at https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl.
KW - julia
KW - julia-language
KW - plotting
KW - user-extendable
KW - visualization
U2 - 10.5334/jors.431
DO - 10.5334/jors.431
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85159116632
VL - 11
JO - Journal of open research soft ware
JF - Journal of open research soft ware
SN - 2049-9647
IS - 1
M1 - 5
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ID: 347297953