Re: A question about Gnuplot

[Robert H. <en...@no...>]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:47 +0800, LUO Yingqin wrote:

> I am trying to display cell-cycle for different genes using Gnuplot.
> Then the graphs will be displayed on the web page by PERL script. It
> is pretty for each single gene.  J

> The problem is the number of genes what I select each time is
> uncertain and I hope all the cell-cycle curves are just in one plot.
> In other words, the number of curves is dynamic for each time. For
> this action, how can I do using Gnuplot? Does a loop command for
> Gnuplot to execute uncertain number data file?

Not 100% sure what you mean, but I would use perl to generate the
gnuplot commands to match the data file. i.e. you open the data file in
perl, decided how many plot series you need, then open a pipe to
gnuplot, and send it whatever commands are needed to draw the plot.

Rob



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