FSharp.Charting: Referencing the Library

FSharp.Charting is most often used from F# scripts. To use the library in a script, load the FSharp.Charting.fsx file, for example from the NuGet package:

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// On Mac OSX use packages/FSharp.Charting.Gtk.2.0.0/FSharp.Charting.Gtk.fsx
#load "packages/FSharp.Charting/FSharp.Charting.fsx"

You can now create a chart:

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open FSharp.Charting

Chart.Line [ for x in 0 .. 10 -> x, x*x ]

When using F# Interactive, each of these examples needs to be evaluated separately. This way, F# Interactive invokes a handler that automatically shows the created chart.

Alternatively, you can reference FSharp.Charting.dll directly and manually display the charts using ShowChart:

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// Note, on Mac OSX use FSharp.Charting.Gtk.dll.
#r "FSharp.Charting.dll" 

open FSharp.Charting

Chart.Line([ for x in 0 .. 10 -> x, x*x ]).ShowChart()

To use the library in a project, either

add the FSharp.Charting NuGet package, or
reference FSharp.Charting.dll directly