Plotting in Julia

Reese Pathak Stephen Boyd

EE103
Stanford University

September 22, 2017

 Plotting options in Julia

I PyPlot (our recommendation)

– JuliaBox supports PyPlot
– PyPlot can be made to run locally (but it’s not straightforward)
I other options (not recommended): Plots, Gadfly

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 Fire up JuliaBox

I head to https://juliabox.com and login

I once you login, you will see a page that looks (somewhat) like

I select Julia 0.6.0, and enter the new notebook you’ve created

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 PyPlot in JuliaBox

I in the top cell of the notebook, run using PyPlot

I you should see no output from this line

I you’ve now successfully imported PyPlot

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 Plotting y = x2 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 10

# define range of x values

x = 0:0.1:10 # 0 to 10, step size 0.1
# define y
y = x.^2
# create a plot
plot(x,y)
# save image
savefig("ImageNameHere.png")

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The result

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 Additional features in PyPlot

I figure legend, axis labels, title

– a label in the plot: plot(x, y, label="Label Goes Here")
– show labels: legend() (after plotting your lines)
– axis labels: xlabel("Label here"); ylabel("label")
– title: title("Title Goes Here")
I multiple lines: call plot(...) multiple times

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 A more detailed plot of y = x2

here’s a more detailed version of y = x2 from earlier (with code)

# collect plotting data

x = 1:0.1:10; y = x.^2
# plot line
plot(x,y, label=''y=x^2'')
# set x and y axis labels
xlabel(''x''); ylabel(''y'')
legend() # turn on legend
# add a title
title(''Plot of y = x^2'')
# save figure
savefig(''second_pyplot'')

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 A more complicated plot (1)

here’s a more complicated PyPlot example

# collect plotting data
x = 1:0.1:10
y1 = sqrt(x) + sin(log(x))
y2 = cos(x)
# plot line 1
plot(x,y1, label=''y=sqrt(x) + sin(log(x))'')
# plot line 2
plot(x,y2, label=''y=cos(x)'')
# set x and y axis labels
xlabel(''x''); ylabel(''y'')
legend() # turn on legend
# add a title
title(''Two plot figure'')
# save figure
savefig(''third_pyplot'')
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 A more complicated plot (2)
the resulting plot

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