Re: clunky fn plots

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, pl...@pi... wrote:

> On 10/11/11 20:25, Juhász Péter wrote:
>> By the way, an answer to your original question would be
>>
>> plot "datafile" using 1:2, "" using 1:(f($1))
>>
>> which would evaluate your function at exactly the same 
>> points as the datafile.
>
> Ah , thank you very much. That , to me would seem to be a logical 
> default if the fn is in that same command as the data.

I disagree strongly; this would be a crazy default. It is not 
unusual to wish to plot the combination of some data points 
and a function, where there are relatively few data points yet 
one wants the function drawn smoothly.

Allin Cottrell