Actually, it's included in 0.92 already:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/0.92.x/files/head:/share/extensions/

Can read CSV files, and produce bar and pie charts.

Regards,
 Maren

Am 07.01.2017 um 15:24 schrieb Pierre Massat:
> The extension you mentioned earlier already does importing spreadsheets.
> What Illustrators has is a spreadsheet like interface in the UI, like a
> small table with cells that can be edited. This would be very handy, but
> as I wrote in my original post Inkscape doesn't seem to make this type
> of UI element easy to create (which is OK, but makes the creation of
> extension that mimics Illustrator more difficult).
>
> 2017-01-07 12:44 GMT+01:00 Marc Jeanmougin <marc@...3080...
> <mailto:marc@...3080...>>:
>
>     Extensions are written in python, so it's possible, but you'll need to
>     include packages that can read whatever speadsheet format you're
>     interested in (maybe https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyexcel/
>     <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyexcel/> for xls and ods)
>
>     On 01/07/2017 12:10 PM, Pierre Massat wrote:
>     > Interesting, I didn't know about this extension.
>     > I guess I could try and extend it a bit.
>     >
>     > No spreadsheet in the UI though, I wish there was a way to implement this.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > Pierre.
>     >
>     > 2017-01-07 11:33 GMT+01:00 Marc Jeanmougin <marc@...3080... <mailto:marc@...3080...>
>     > <mailto:marc@...3080... <mailto:marc@...3080...>>>:

>     >
>     >     Hi,
>     >
>     >     Probably fairly easy: https://github.com/Florianjw/NiceCharts
>     <https://github.com/Florianjw/NiceCharts>
>     >     <https://github.com/Florianjw/NiceCharts
>     <https://github.com/Florianjw/NiceCharts>> should be
>     >     included in 0.93
>     >
>     >     Cheers,
>     >     --
>     >     Marc
>     >
>     >     On 01/07/2017 09:57 AM, Pierre Massat wrote:
>     >     > Dear all,
>     >     >
>     >     > I know I should be sending this to the dev list, but I'm not
>     a member
>     >     > and I'm feeling lazy.
>     >     >
>     >     > In Illustrator there's a tool to import data in a
>     spreadsheet, and
>     >     > create basic charts from that. It's very handy for people who do
>     >     > data-visualization.
>     >     > I would think that Inkscape is just as good as Illustrator for
>     >     tweaking
>     >     > existing svg charts (colors, text, layout, etc.). But due to the
>     >     lack of
>     >     > this tool Inkscape currently requires an extra step to
>     create the
>     >     charts
>     >     > with another application (e.g. the R project for statistical
>     >     computing).
>     >     >
>     >     > I looked at tutorials to create extensions. I think that the
>     logic
>     >     could
>     >     > be quite easily implemented (i.e. calculating scales,
>     displaying the
>     >     > shapes). But there doesn't seem to be a spreadsheet widget
>     for the UI,
>     >     > which makes it a no-go if users can't input a few simple numbers
>     >     manually.
>     >     >
>     >     > Any idea how difficult it would be to create this extension ?
>     >     >
>     >     > Cheers,
>     >     >
>     >     > Pierre.
>     >     >
>     >     >
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