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Accessed 9 September 2011. Community support is customarily done through Yahoo News Groups.Yahoo News Groups Community
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History

The first version was released August 25, 1999.
Accessed 8 February 2008. Ploticus is a mature product with activity, where the last major release (2.42) occurred in May 2013.
Accessed 9 September 2011. Bruce Byfield in Linux.com described Ploticus as, "...a throwback to the days when Unix programs did one thing, and did it well, using a minimum of system resources."Linux.COM Ploticus Review
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Graph types and features

At the center of Ploticus lies a scripting language.
Accessed 9 September 2011. Through the scripting language, "2-D graphs and... basic statistical functions" are supported. Sophisticated graphs can be developed quickly using scripts previously developed, called "prefabs". Simple graphs can be produced using few parameters in addition to the data.
Accessed 9 September 2011. Users can create and modify "prefabs". Ploticus supports the following types of plot: line plots, filled line plots, category line plots, ranges sweeps, pie graphs, vertical bar graphs, horizontal bar charts, timelines, floating bar segments, bar proportions, scatter plots, heat maps (density grids), single variable distribution, error bars, curve fitting, vector plots, Venn diagrams, Venn magnitude charts, tree diagrams. Features include: scaling and axes, legends, annotations, clickmap, and mouse-over support.
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Applications

Ploticus has been used for: * Animal Phenome Graphing Mouse Phenome Database
Accessed 9 September 2011. * Climate Trending
Accessed 9 September 2011. * Health Data Analysis
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As a plug-in

Ploticus can be used as a plug-in with various other software such as: *

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