Basic Concepts

Use plot to create a new plot object, and plot! to add to an existing one:

plot(args...; kw...)                  # creates a new plot window, and sets it to be the `current`
plot!(args...; kw...)                 # changes plot `current()`
plot!(plt, args...; kw...)            # changes plot `plt`

Input arguments can take many forms. Some valid examples:

plot()                                    # empty plot object
plot(4)                                   # initialize with 4 empty series
plot(rand(10))                            # plot 1 series... x = 1:10
plot(rand(10,5))                          # plot 5 series... x = 1:10
plot(rand(10), rand(10))                  # plot 1 series
plot(rand(10,5), rand(10))                # plot 5 series... y is the same for all
plot(sin, rand(10))                       # y = sin(x)
plot(rand(10), sin)                       # same... y = sin(x)
plot([sin,cos], 0:0.1:π)                  # plot 2 series, sin(x) and cos(x)
plot([sin,cos], 0, π)                     # plot sin and cos on the range [0, π]
plot(1:10, Any[rand(10), sin])            # plot 2 series: rand(10) and map(sin,x)
plot(dataset("Ecdat", "Airline"), :Cost)  # plot the :Cost column from a DataFrame

Keyword arguments allow for customization of the plot, subplots, axes, and series. They follow consistent rules as much as possible, and you'll avoid common pitfalls if you read this section carefully:

• Many arguments have aliases which are replaced during preprocessing. c is the same as color, m is the same as marker, etc. You can choose a verbosity that you are comfortable with.
• There are some special arguments which magically set many related things at once.
• If the argument is a "matrix-type", then each column will map to a series, cycling through columns if there are fewer columns than series. In this sense, a vector is treated just like an "nx1 matrix".
• Many arguments accept many different types... for example the color (also markercolor, fillcolor, etc) argument will accept strings or symbols with a color name, or any Colors.Colorant, or a ColorScheme, or a symbol representing a ColorGradient, or an AbstractVector of colors/symbols/etc...

Animations

Animations are created in 3 steps:

• Initialize an Animation object.
• Save each frame of the animation with frame(anim).
• Convert the frames to an animated gif with gif(anim, filename, fps=15)

Useful Tips

    plot!(title = "New Title", xlabel = "New xlabel", ylabel = "New ylabel")
    plot!(xlims = (0, 5.5), ylims = (-2.2, 6), xticks = 0:0.5:10, yticks = [0,1,5,10])

    # or using magic:
    plot!(xaxis = ("mylabel", :log10, :flip))
    xaxis!("mylabel", :log10, :flip)