I have never really gotten along with DataFrames very well (and to be fair, not used it that much). I figured I should ask if there are any straightforward recipes (or methods) for plotting the content of a DataFrame? (asking because I saw someone doing the equivalent code in pandas and he seemed t…

DataFramesMeta The @with macro from DataFramesMeta.jl can make your Plots.jl command slightly shorter: @with data plot(:c1, [:c2, :c3, :c4]) or with labels for a fair comparison to the other options below: @with data plot(:c1, [:c2, :c3, :c4], labels=["c2" "c3" "c4"]) # no commas AlgebraOfGrap…

Looks good. The plotting is not the actual problem, i.e. I can create the plot just fine. However, it feel like something where it likely could/would be something built into DataFrames/Plots already. And if this is the case, I would want to use that (especially in tutorials and stuff that might be …

AlgebraOfGraphics.jl is your friend if you are seeking plots of tables that read off the columns automatically with some predefined meaning. Are you aware of it?

I always found Gadfly.jl to be well-suited for plotting dataframes. There has not been much active development according to github , BUT that doesn’t mean it won’t work for your purposes. To be honest though, the last time I used it was probably at least 3 years ago.

Or TidierPlots: [image] GitHub - TidierOrg/TidierPlots.jl: Tidier data visualization in Julia, modeled after... Tidier data visualization in Julia, modeled after the ggplot2 R package. :slight_smile:

StatsPlots is now part of Plots.jl, and has some convenient handling of columns, groups, etc.

StatsPlots’s @df seems to be no better than DataFrameMeta’s @with since you still have to manually provide the legend entries. The syntax and output are exactly the same: @df data plot(:c1, [:c2, :c3, :c4], labels=["c2" "c3" "c4"]) Why can none of these packages automatically find the column names…

[image] Nathan_Boyer: Why can none of these packages automatically find the column names for the legend? I have an issue tracking that on AlgebraOfGraphics here .

[image] Nathan_Boyer: Why can none of these packages automatically find the column names for the legend? @df df plot(:c1, cols([:c2, :c3, :c4])) [image] I found this pretty much by accident, but passing them through a cols call seems to turn that feature on.

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rafael.guerra May 9, 2025, 3:44pm 2

Check this other post for one option.

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