Re: variable colors with newhistograms

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, 25 January, 2017 23:12:08 Valerio Schiavoni wrote:
> >
> >
> > > What I need in the end is the following:
> > > - any column whose value is  <= 0.50 should be in red
> > > - any column whose value is between 0.50 and  0.75 should be in orange
> > > - any column whose value is between 0.75 1.0  should be in green
> > >
> > > Does this makes the task any simpler ? ...
> >
> > That is not possible for the "with histograms" plot style.
> > It always colors boxes using the next linetype color in sequence.
> > You can control the linetype definitions and which one is used
> > first but nothing else.
> >
> > There are many other plot styles that do allow providing color
> > information in a separate column.  Perhaps you can reformat your
> > data so that it can be plotted "with boxes".
> >
> 
> Ok then. Can you point me to a gnuplot demo where "with boxes" is used, so
> that I can adapt my data to the right format ?

http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/varcolor.html
http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/boxplot.html