Re: histograms?

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Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> I assume that the following is still a correct statement with the latest 
> version of gnuplot:
> 
> `histeps` is only a plotting style; `gnuplot` does not have the ability to
> create bins and determine their population from some data set.

Not strictly.  Since version 4.0 at least, there's a rudimentary 
histogram collection tool available: the 'smooth frequency' filter:

	binwidth = 5
	bin(x) = binwidth * floor(x / binwidth)
	plot 'data' using (bin($1)):1 w histeps

To my shame I haven't experimented with Ethan's histogram plotting 
machine enough to know how much better it might be at this same task.