Re: "bins filter" and "set fit nolog option"

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Monday, 17 August 2015 05:01:15 PM Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> 
> In the NEWS file, I saw a remark about a new feature:
> 	
> 	"data filter "bins" sorts input into equal width bins on x"
> 
> but I couldn't find any mention of it in the regular
> documentation. It sounds quite interesting and useful -
> has this been documented somewhere?

Perhaps you have not updated/installed the documentation 
matching the current version?

gnuplot> help bins

 This option is EXPERIMENTAL (implementation details may change).
 Syntax:
      plot 'DATA' using <XCOL> {:<YCOL>} bins{=<NBINS>}
           {binrange [<LOW>:<HIGH>]}
 The `bins` option to a `plot` command first sorts the original data into
 equal width bins on x and then plots a single value per bin.  The default
 number of bins is controlled by `set samples`, but this can be changed by
 giving an explicit number of bins in the command.

 If no binrange is given, the range is taken from the current x axis range.
 Any data points outside this range will be ignored.

 If only a single column is given in the using clause then each data point
 contributes a count of 1 to the accumulation of total counts in the bin for
 that x coordinate value.  If a second column is given then the value in that
 column is added to the accumulation for the bin.  Thus the following two plot
 commnad are equivalent:
      plot 'DATA" using N bins=20
      set samples 20
      plot 'DATA' using (column(N)):(1)

 For related plotting styles see `smooth frequency` and `smooth kdensity`.

> Also, I seem to remember a "set fit nolog" option, but
> currently don't seem to find a reference to it anymore.
> Any hints?

gnuplot> help set fit
 The `set fit` command controls the options for the `fit` command.

 Syntax:
       set fit {nolog | logfile {"<filename>"|default}}
               {{no}quiet|results|brief|verbose}
               {{no}errorvariables}
               {{no}covariancevariables}
               {{no}errorscaling}
               {{no}prescale}
               {maxiter <value>|default}
               {limit <epsilon>|default}
               {limit_abs <epsilon_abs>}   
               {start-lambda <value>|default}
               {lambda-factor <value>|default}
               {script {"<command>"|default}}
               {v4 | v5}
       unset fit
       show fit