there have been some situations where i needed a custom grid on a 2-dimensional plot in gnuplot instead of a regularly placed grid. in order for me to set up a customized grid i have to first set up a customised xtics and/or ytics. gnuplot does provide a way of providing user preferred tics by [...]
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xtics ytics from data file in gnuplot
Posted in gnuplot, linux, sed, tagged bash, gnuplot, linux, plotting, sed, shell script on November 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
gnuplot annoyance
Posted in gnuplot, linux on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
i hate myself for writing that post title… the joy of free/libre software should muffle any feeling of annoyance or hatred towards a software, so i apologize in advance. anyways… i wonder why the following does not work in gnuplot while the following does why should the order be important? i m sure it has [...]
gnuplot compile options
Posted in gnuplot on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
how do i know with what compile options gnuplot was compiled on my gnu/linux system ? if you are looking for an answer to that question then you can get an answer by typing the following at the gnuplot command prompt gnuplot> show version long
gnuplot help
Posted in gnuplot on August 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
normally i used the following to querry gnuplot for any help gnuplot> help plot i learn’t a new method today … say you want to figure out what isosamples mean, then write the following at the gnuplot prompt gnuplot> ?isosamples if you want to know some thing about terminal then its gnuplot> ?terminal
gnuplot plot datafile with labels
Posted in gnuplot on May 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Say in a datafile you have 10 points that you want to plot but on the plot itself there is no easy way to figure out the serial position of the data point in the file by just looking at the plot. of course one can estimate the coordinates of the datum and then compare [...]
gnuplot in ubuntu 8.04
Posted in gnuplot, linux on March 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
the default gnuplot terminal in ubuntu 8.04 is set to wxt and it sucks big time in comparison to x11. Also tab completion is not present. A bit of googling (1, 2) says that one has to compile it from source with some additionan compile parameters like –with-readline=gnu missing fedora big time
