Re: [Gnuplot-info] data for 2d histogram sorted by x-axis

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Collin Monahan wrote:
> Well taking some data file junk.txt as
> 42      100
> 15      90
> 23      50
> 11      25
> 77      10
> 88      0
> 
> And within gnuplot using the command
>     plot "junk.txt" w i
> 
> I need to see the bars in descending size as the input is sorted, what
> I see on my end gnuplot v. 4.0.0, is sorted along the x axis. 

That's not "sorting" along the x axis, that's positioning the impulses
where your x axis data say they should be.  That's what x axis data are
*for*.  If you don't want that, drop those x data, i.e. either don't put 
them into the file, or tell gnuplot to ignore them:

	plot "junk.txt" u 2 w i