MIT licensed by Michael Chavinda
Maintained by [email protected]
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Module documentation for 0.3.0.1
Depends on 3 packages(full list with versions):
Used by 1 package in nightly-2025-09-18(full list with versions):
Granite
A library for producing terminal plots. It depends only on Haskell’s base and text (only for efficiency but it could use String
. In fact, we expose an API that uses String
for easier use in GHCi) packages so it should be easy to use and install.
Supported graph types
- Scatter plots
- Histograms
- (Stacked) bar charts
- Pie charts
- Box plots
- Line charts
- Heat maps
Examples
Scatter plot
import Control.Monad
import System.Random.Stateful
import Granite.String
main :: IO ()
main = do
g <- newIOGenM =<< newStdGen
let range = (0 :: Double, 1 :: Double)
ptsA_x <- replicateM 600 (uniformRM range g)
ptsA_y <- replicateM 600 (uniformRM range g)
ptsB_x <- replicateM 600 (uniformRM range g)
ptsB_y <- replicateM 600 (uniformRM range g)
putStrLn (scatter "Random points" [series "A" (zip ptsA_x ptsA_y), series "B" (zip ptsB_x ptsB_y)]
defPlot{widthChars=68,heightChars=22,plotTitle="Random points"})
Bar chart
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import qualified Data.Text.IO as T
import Granite
main :: IO ()
main = T.putStrLn (bars [("Q1",12),("Q2",18),("Q3",9),("Q4",15)] defPlot {plotTitle="Sales"})
Stacked bar chart
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import qualified Data.Text.IO as T
import Granite
main :: IO ()
main = T.putStrLn (stackedBars [ ("Q1", [("Hardware", 120), ("Software", 200), ("Services", 80)])
, ("Q2", [("Hardware", 135), ("Software", 220), ("Services", 95)])
, ("Q3", [("Hardware", 110), ("Software", 240), ("Services", 110)])
, ("Q4", [("Hardware", 145), ("Software", 260), ("Services", 125)])
] defPlot {plotTitle="Quarterly Revenue Breakdown"})
Pie chart
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import qualified Data.Text.IO as T
import Granite
main :: IO ()
main = T.putStrLn (pie [("Alpha",0.35),("Beta",0.25),("Gamma",0.20),("Delta",0.20)] defPlot{widthChars=46,heightChars=18,legendPos=LegendRight,plotTitle="Share"})
Box plot
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import qualified Data.Text.IO as T
import Granite
main :: IO ()
main = T.putStrLn $ boxPlot [ ("Class A", [78, 82, 85, 88, 90, 92, 85, 87, 89, 91, 76, 94, 88])
, ("Class B", [70, 75, 72, 80, 85, 78, 82, 77, 79, 81, 74, 83])
, ("Class C", [88, 92, 95, 90, 93, 89, 91, 94, 96, 87, 90, 92])
, ("Class D", [65, 70, 72, 68, 75, 80, 73, 71, 69, 74, 77, 76])
] defPlot {plotTitle="Test Score Distribution by Class"}
Line graph
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import qualified Data.Text.IO as T
import Granite
main :: IO ()
main = T.putStrLn $ lineGraph [ ("Product A", [(1, 100), (2, 120), (3, 115), (4, 140), (5, 155), (6, 148)])
, ("Product B", [(1, 80), (2, 85), (3, 95), (4, 92), (5, 110), (6, 125)])
, ("Product C", [(1, 60), (2, 62), (3, 70), (4, 85), (5, 82), (6, 90)])
] defPlot {plotTitle="Monthly Sales Trends"}
Heatmap
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import qualified Data.Text.IO as T
import Granite
main :: IO ()
main = do
let matrix = [ [1.0, 0.8, 0.3, -0.2, 0.1]
, [0.8, 1.0, 0.5, -0.1, 0.2]
, [0.3, 0.5, 1.0, 0.6, 0.4]
, [-0.2, -0.1, 0.6, 1.0, 0.7]
, [0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.7, 1.0]
]
T.putStrLn $ heatmap matrix defPlot {plotTitle="Correlation Matrix"}
Histogram
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import qualified Data.Text.IO as T
import Granite
main :: IO ()
main = do
heights <- replicateM 5000 (uniformRM (160 :: Double, 190 :: Double) g)
Text.putStrLn $
histogram
(bins 30 155 195)
heights
defPlot
{ widthChars = 68
, heightChars = 18
, legendPos = LegendBottom
, xFormatter = \_ _ v -> Text.pack (show (round v :: Int))
, xNumTicks = 10
, yNumTicks = 5
, plotTitle = "Heights (cm)"
}
Changes
Revision history for granite
0.3.0.1 – 2025-09-17
- Left edge of plots now has an elbow instead of disjoint bars.
- Remove dependency on random.
0.3.0.0 – 2025-08-31
- Export a
LabelFormatter
function along with AxisEnv to define smarter labels. - Change API of formatter to use AxisEnv and slot budget.
- Users can now specify the number of ticks to show and the colour palette for a plot.
0.2.0.2 – 2025-08-30
- Add plot option to define the format of labels on both axes.
0.2.0.1 – 2025-08-26
- Loosen bounds for text
0.2.0.0 – 2025-08-26
- Plot title is now part of the configuration options.
- API now uses Text instead of String.
- You can now specify the bounds of a plot e.g.
T.putStrLn $ lineGraph [("Foo", [(0, 0), (10, 1)]), ("Bar", [(0, 1), (10, 0)])] defPlot { xBounds = (Just 0, Just 10), yBounds = (Just 0, Just 1) }
0.1.0.3 – 2025-08-21
- Fix heatmaps: matrix grid wasn’t properly mapping to canvas + axes were reversed.
0.1.0.2 – 2025-08-20
- Add README to doc files.
0.1.0.1 – 2025-08-20
- Remove IO monad from plotting functions.
- Faster plotting after moving from lists as arrays to AVL trees.
- All functions are now strict by default.
0.1.0.0 – 2025-08-18
- Support for pie charts, bar charts, heatmaps, line graphs, box plots, and histograms.