I've experimented with RLPlot and Open Office spreadsheet, but they both have annoying features.

RLPlot just sucks because it's not very plentiful with features, and spreadsheet just doesn't seem to do shit properly.

Like say I wanted each horizontal division to equal 100 nano seconds, and I wanted each verticle devision to equal 2 volts... How can I get this to graph properly in open office?

What would be nice, is software that offers you a graph like graph paper, with tools to draw (like paint) onto that lined paper. On top of that it would be nice if it could graph equations and a table of x y values.

If you want serious statistical and graphing capabilities, I know of no other solution but R. It has a bit of a learning curve, but I've had great success with it.

www.r-project.org

You may want to take a look at gnuplot (should be on your system).

You may also want to take a look at GMT; it's primarily for generating maps but there are graphing and modeling tools as part of the package that do what you're talking about: see http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu.

Now, both of these are stand-alone but they'll do what you're talking about and the output is easily incorporated in a document.

i_grok,

R has more than one approach to graphing (there's grid and lattice, I think ?) Which one do you use ? Does the one which is more difficult (is it lattice ?) have a very steep learning curve ? Should you learn the grid one first ?

About the most advanced things I have done are plots and histograms. In these instances, all you have to do is load your data into an array, or two, and then call plot(), barplot(), hist(), etc.

So perhaps I haven't done the things you're interested in.