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From: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Cricket Graph Alternatives ???
Message-ID: <9627@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 27 Jul 89 15:38:40 GMT
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Reply-To: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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Another plug for Igor:

This program does everything i wanted Cricket to do, but couldn't.  This
includes hairline lines for connecting points, adjustable size symbols
and error bars, and processing and displaying thousands of points in a
few seconds, rather than hours.  Version 1.1 will include date and time
functions (now in the beta version i have), which enable me to do
something i've wanted to do for _years_, on any machine: plot time
series data (perhaps taken at uneven time intervals) against time, with
the date and or time as labels on the x-axis.

But the best part is that with the extensive macro language capability,
you can usually kluge something that Igor doesn't do already.  And
WaveMetrics offers such good tech support -- i asked them (via e-mail)
how to do something, and they wrote some macros and sent them to me!

Yes, the user interface takes some getting used to if you're used to
Cricket Graph.  But try switching to another word processor -- you find
the same thing is true.  If Cricket does what you need it to, easily and
quickly, why switch?  It's a good program for what it does well, and is
fine for many.

Disclaimer:  I'm not associated with WaveMetrics, just a satisfied
user.

-- 

                                               - Scott