Description of the issue
There are a few GMT modules that have a mode for extracting data (statistics or otherwise) via the inquire (I) flag in addition to plotting:
How do we want to handle these cases? It seems weird to use fig.histogram(..., inquire=...) if no figure/plot is actually returned. One suggestion made at #794 (review) was:
Ideally, what we might have to do is make two user-facing rose functions:
1. A plotting-only `fig.rose`
2. A non-plotting `pygmt.rose` which will solely use the inquire (I) flag.
Both of these could share a core def _rose() function and live within pygmt/src/rose.py. This is just an idea though, and probably quite hard to implement in one Pull Request. For now, we could implement just the plotting side (1) and raise a NotImplementedError for inquire (I), and perhaps wrap pygmt.rose (2) in a future PR? Or maybe there's a smarter alternative way.
Open to suggestions on how we want the API for this look like.
Are you willing to help implement and maintain this feature? Discuss first