Re: Sideways violin plots in one plot cmd?

[Ethan A M. <me...@uw...>]

On Saturday, 15 August 2020 16:37:35 PDT Dima Kogan wrote:
> Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> writes:
> 
> > Are you trying to avoid the extra step of saving to an array or
> > datablock and then replotting? That seems like a totally different
> > question from vertical/horizontal layout or coordinate
> > transformations.
> 
> Yes. Avoiding that extra step is the question in this thread; see the
> subject. I've never tried to plot sideways histograms, like Peter did; I
> was assuming that this is simple if we plot into a datablock and then
> replot, but maybe not.
> 
> In any case, here's my problem. I use gnuplot A LOT. But 99% of that
> usage is via one of two wrappers (I wrote both of these):
> 
>   feedgnuplot (a nice shell interface)
>   gnuplotlib (a nice python interface)
> 
> Both of these work as thin wrappers around gnuplot, the idea being that
> with some "set" commands and a fancy "plot" command you can do anything.
> As it currently stands, violin plots are apparently not a part of this
> "anything". One could say that my wrappers are silly and not
> flexible-enough. Which maybe is true, but realistically speaking, I
> don't see ever expanding these tools to use datablocks, since that would
> break all sorts of interface assumptions both of these tools are making.

I don't get it. What is it about the shell interface that would prevent you
from doing exactly what is in violinplot.dem?
  set table $datablock 
  plot ...
  unset table
  plot $datablock ...

	Ethan