Re: [Gnuplot-info] Problems generating multiple plots using stdin

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

On Saturday, 02 January 2016 10:48:28 AM Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Thomas Sefzick <t.s...@fz...>
> wrote:
> 
> > Kevin Oberman <rkoberman <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > I am baffled by a failure I am having in attempting to generate a series
> > of
> > > plots on a single image. The inputs are from stdin. I get only the first
> > > and last of the five plots, although the titles for all five are shown.
> > No
> > > errors reported.

The last 3 columns of your data are identical, so the corresponding plots
lie exactly on top of each other.  All are present in the graph.
If you use an interactive terminal (qt wxt ...)  you can toggle them 
individually to confirm they are present.

> > >
> > > I have recorded the stream sent to gnuplot and can see no problems,
> > though
> > > I suspect I am missing a simpler way to do it.

$DATA << EOD
... 96 lines of input ...
EOD

set style data lines

plot $DATA using 1:2 title "2016-01-02", $DATA using 1:3 title "2016-01-01", $DATA using 1:4 title "2015-12-31", $DATA using 1:5 title "2015-12-30", $DATA using 1:6 title "2015-12-29"



> > > ...
> > > plot "-" using 1:2 title "2016-01-01" with lines, "-" using 1:3 title
> > > "2015-12-31" with lines, "-" using 1:4 title "2015-12-30" with lists, "-"
> > > using 1:5 title "2015-12-29" with lists, "-" using 1:6 title "2015-12-28"
> > > with lists
> > > ...
> >
> > i would suspect that the 1st and the 2nd plot are working,
> > the others cant't due to a syntax error.
> >
> > change "with lists" to "with lines" in the plot command.
> >
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> Thanks so much for taking time to point out my really dumb error.
> Unfortunately, it was a cut and paste/editing error and  was not in the
> actual raw capture. All three plots were actually "with lines".
> 
> Since the full stream is rather long (almost 500 lines), I am not going to
> include the whole thing in this message. Instead I have put it on my server
> at/usr/local/www/data/FreeBSD/gnuplot.input.txt
> <http://ykoberman.dlinkddns.com/FreeBSD/gnuplot.input.txt> along with one
> of the output images at http://ykoberman.dlinkddns.com/FreeBSD/temp.gif
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