[Gnuplot-info] Broken histograms when using smooth frequency on data file with discontinuities

[David L. <lin...@ie...>]

Hello,

I would like to plot the distribution of a variable and I follow the
directions given in the "Gnuplot in Action" book:

I define a binning function:

bin(x,s) = s*int(x/s)

And then I use the plot command:

plot './data.dat' u (bin($2, 0.2)):(1) smooth frequency

However, the 'data.dat' file has a number of discontinuities in it
(i.e. blank lines). This causes the output to show several sets of
histograms, one for each continuous set of data.

Is there any workaround for this? I would like the histogram to show
the distribution in the whole file, and to ignore discontinuities.

Thanks in advance,

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