Re: [Gnuplot-info] Question about clustered histograms

[Brian O. <bos...@ve...>]

Thomas,

Right. Tried a number of variations of "for", none of them worked. Now I'm using the "using 2:xtic(1) title col …" syntax, similar to what you suggested, and it works fine.

Thanks again,

Brian O.


On Jul 4, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Thomas Sefzick <t.s...@fz...> wrote:

> Brian Osborne <bosborne11 <at> verizon.net> writes:
>> 
>> Plotters,
>> 
>> The plotting is just not working, though I think I'm following
>> the example code in the manual (page 51).
>> 
>> Here's the script:
>> 
>> set terminal png 
>> set output 'histograms.png'
>> set style fill solid 1.00 border lt -1
>> set style data histograms
>> set style histogram clustered gap 2
>> set xtics border rotate by -45
>> plot for [COL=2:3] 'tmp_data_file' using COL:xticlabels(1)
>> 
>> And my data looks like this:
>> 
>> e-02	2	4
>> e-03	11	33
>> e-04	33	2
>> 
>> The clusters of bars and X labels are made correctly but lines like:
>> 
>> 'tmp_data_file' using COL:xticlabels(1)
>> 
>> are inserted at the top of the image, where the keys should be.
> 
> these are the keys.
> 
> to switch them off, use 'unset key' or an empty 'title'
> option in the 'plot' command.
> 
>> If I use "[COL=2:3:2]" instead then only a single bar is
>> created, rather than a cluster of 2 bars.
> 
> if you use only one column for the histogram, then there
> is nothing to cluster.
> 
>> What am I doing incorrectly?
> 
> maybe it would be better not to use the 'for' loop, instead
> you could use:
> 
> plot 'tmp_data_file' using 2:xticlabels(1) title 'dataset 1', \
> '' using 3 title 'dataset 2'
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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