Re: [Gnuplot-info] Histograms not centered at x-axis

[Thomas S. <t.s...@fz...>]

set 'gap' to an odd number:

set style histogram gap 1


choc wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to plot a histogram in using the standard histogram style.
> However, the clustered bars are not centered about the corresponding label
> at the x-axis.
> 
> This is a sample code to show how I want to use it:
> 
> reset
> set style data histograms
> set style histogram cluster
> plot '-' u 1
> 10
> e
> 
> If I got it right, the result should be a single bar of height 10,
> centered about 0 at the x-axis.
> Yet the bar is not centered, but its left border is placed at 0:
> 
>  http://old.nabble.com/file/p33870960/histogram.png 
> 
> So it is 0.5 * boxwidth too far to the right. If I include a second data
> line, it is the same: the xtic should be exactly between the two bars, yet
> it appears at the center of bar 1, so again the bars are 0.5 * boxwidth
> too far to the right. This is always the case, no matter how many bars are
> plotted.
> 
> Am I missing any option to get the histogram clusters centered? Or is
> there a way to "move" the bars by 0.5 * boxwidth to the left?
> 
> By the way, I'm using Version 4.4 patchlevel 2 on a Fedora system.
> 
> Thanks for any hint!
> 
> Andreas
> 

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