[2b3a51]

Tangent to article: text character based charts for statistics. Decades ago I had an education version of MINITAB that ran under DOS and did scatter diagrams and dotplots and box and whisker plots from text characters (you could use pure text, I think proper ASCII or you could set an option to use those DOS drawing characters). The idea was to encourage initial data exploration before launching on formal statistical tests.

Anyone know of a terminal program that can do proper dotplots?

[wonger_]

This stack overflow thread had a pretty good list of terminal plotting tools:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/123378/command-line-unix...

gnuplot, feedgnuplot, eplot, asciichart, bashplotlib, ervy, ttyplot, youplot, visidata

And there's a lovely ASCII plot in the AWK book: https://dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC...

[nxpnsv]

Gnu plot dumb terminal mode?

[rbanffy]

That’s possible as well. I wish common terminals (the kind that is shipped with the OS) would do ReGIS, Tektronix, or even sixel (yuck!).

[2b3a51]

Thanks to all posts above for engaging with my quest for minitab style text character dotplots! Below is an example of what I'm on about (artisan construction in Mousepad) and apologies to anyone on a narrow screen where the text mode is going to get jumbled.

  0            .   .   . . . . . .    . .
 
  
  1                                     :     .:..       ..      .
    
                .
  2     .    ..::          ..
    --|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-----
     32      40      48      56      64      72      80      88 

The example is typed out from

https://support.minitab.com/en-us/minitab/help-and-how-to/gr...

The `plotrix` package for R looks hopeful (mentioned on one of the links kindly provided above) as it includes a 'minitab style dotplot' function.