Tag Plots v0.5.2

[tbreloff]

It's been a while since I tagged Plots. Here's an (incomplete) list of everything new since v0.5.1:

• Added GR.jl as a backend (unfinished but functional) All credit to @jheinen
• Set defaults within backend calls (i.e. gadfly(legend=false))
• abline!; also extrema allows plotting functions without giving x (i.e. plot(cos, 0, 10); plot!(sin)) @pkofod @joshday
• Integration with PlotlyJS.jl for using Plotly inside a Blink window @spencerlyon2
• The Plotly backend has been split into my built-in version (plotly()) and @spencerlyon2's backend (plotlyjs())
• Revamped backend setup code for easily adding new backends
• New docs (WIP) at http://plots.readthedocs.org/
• Overhaul to :legend keyword (see RFC: Add new keyword: colorbar? JuliaPlots/Plots.jl#135)
• New dependency on Requires, allows auto-loading of DataFrames support
• Support for plotting lists of Tuples and FixedSizeArrays
• new @animate macro for super simple animations (see Animation interface JuliaPlots/Plots.jl#111 (comment))
• allow Function for :fillrange and zcolor arguments (for example: scatter(sin, 0:10, marker=15, fill=(cos,0.4), zcolor=sin))
• allow vectors of PlotText without x/y coords (for example: scatter(rand(10), m=20, ann=map(text, 1:10)))
• Lots and lots of fixes

As always, post your issues and questions here

-Tom

[tkelman]

Do you know why your tests are failing on travis?

[tbreloff]

Short answer: I'm aware and it's no big deal.

I know what is failing (a single visual regression test drawing PyPlot markers), but I'm not sure the exact reason. Different version of Matplotlib on the test machine? Who knows... I'm also not really sure how to figure that out. Best solution is probably to skip that test so I get a green icon :/