Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2008 11:52 AM, Ioannis Vranos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> OS: SL 5.1 x86.
>>
>>
>> Hi, I have installed graphviz during installation but I do not find any
>> menu item about it. How can we use it? I suppose it is a graph drawing
>> application/framework, right?
>>
> I have been wondering the same thing.  But I was afraid to ask.
> 
> Maybe we can find out together. Or I can show you what I've learned
> since reading your mail.
> 
> The programs delivered with graphViz  like dot and acyclic take node
> description files and fancy them up for other programs.  Observe they
> have several different executables for different types of graphs, and
> each of them has a man page.
> [...]
>From more reading on graphViz, it appears to me that this is more of a
> "middle level library" than the kind of thing you would start from a
> menu.  It is middle level in the sense it can process  configuration
> files, but it leaves it up to you to design the files and process
> them.  There are programs available that try to integrate this into
> more of a pleasant user experience.


OK thanks for the info. What about that "R" programming language? :-)