Lisp-Stat Blog
This is the blog section. It has two categories: News and Releases.
Files in these directories will be listed in reverse chronological order.
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Getting Started
Monday, 09 March 2026 in News
It’s never been easy for a developer to get started in Common Lisp. Emacs, though a powerful editor, isn’t considered an IDE by modern standards. Setting up a compiler, quicklisp, slime, swank, and then learning an entirely new …
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Introducing Quick Plot: ggplot-Style Plotting for Lisp-Stat
Saturday, 21 February 2026 in Releases
Today we’re releasing quick-plot, a new system for Lisp-Stat that bring ggplot2-style composable plotting to Common Lisp. plot/vega is able to render any Vega-Lite specification (here’s 50 examples), but it can at times be a bit wordy …
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2023 End of Year Summary
Friday, 29 December 2023 in News
We started the year by working through the examples from the first chapter of the Introduction to the Practice of Statistics. Whilst this is an excellent test for Lisp-Stat, Chapter 2 presented some major challanges to the plotting system, so the …
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Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
Sunday, 05 February 2023 in News
The examples from the first chapter of the book are now completed. This chapter focuses mostly on graphics, and the examples here supplement those in the plotting examples.
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2022 Release
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 in Releases
Overview This release is the third major refactoring of Lisp-Stat, with particular emphasis on plotting. I have attempted to make plotting as easy in Lisp-Stat as it is in Vega-Lite, upon which it is based. In addition, much clean-up and polishing of …
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Statistical Analysis with Lisp-Stat
Sunday, 09 May 2021 in News
Lisp-Stat is the culmination of many months work to pull together the best-in-class statistical analysis packages available in Common Lisp, under a commercially friendly license, usable ‘out of the box’. It is an environment for statistical …