Re: [Gnuplot-info] histogram

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solled wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to gnuplot. I need to make a histogram of some data I have. How do
> I do this?

Depends on what you mean by "make a histogram".   There are two rather 
distinct things people refer two by this phrase:  binning & counting 
data into a histogram dataset, and displaying such a dataset as a plot.
gnuplot, by its nature, is really only meant to do the second part. 
Following the old Unix dogma of "one tool <--> one task", binning and 
counting is not gnuplot's job.  But it does offer rudimentary support 
for it, as of version 4.0:

	bin(x,width) = width * floor(x / width)
	plot 'data' using (bin($1,5):(1.0) smooth frequency with histeps