ggplot

http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/ggplot-for-python.html

Package created by the yhat team
focuses on duplicating the API and output of R's ggplot2 library



In [1]:

    
%run talktools
%matplotlib inline

Now you can create matplotlib plots using R-like syntax:



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from ggplot import *

ggplot(meat, aes('date','beef')) + \
    geom_line(color='black') + \
    scale_x_date(breaks=date_breaks('7 years'), labels='%b %Y') + \
    scale_y_continuous(labels='comma')









    












    Out[2]:





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ggplot also natively handles Pandas DataFrames:



In [3]:

    
import pandas as pd

meat_lng = pd.melt(meat, id_vars=['date'])

p = ggplot(aes(x='date', y='value'), data=meat_lng)
p + geom_point() + \
    stat_smooth(colour="red") + \
    facet_wrap("variable")









    












    Out[3]:





<ggplot: (275062373)>

Former R users who have switched to Python: this may be what you're looking for!