I am trying to plot multiple plots on the same page of gnuplot postscript output. Although, I like the way the plots are looking, what can I do to avoid the text on the plots? (See the code below, and the plot too). If you cannnot see the text on the plot, it says: "'../binsam_Omidi.dat' using 5:($1==1?$6:1/0)"
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set term postscript eps color size 10,10
set output "../Results/phasespace_bins.ps"
set multiplot layout 4,5 # engage multiplot mode
set size square
set size ratio -1
plot '../binsam_Omidi.dat' using 5:($1==1?$6:1/0) w p ps 1 pt 7
set size 0.4,0.4 # set the size of the second plot in plot units
set origin 0.15,0.5 # set the origin for the second plot
plot '../binsam_Omidi.dat' using 5:($1==1?$6:1/0) w p ps 1 pt 7
unset multiplot
Thanks!
That is the legend (key) entry of the plot. You can specify your own title with the title option, like
plot x title 'my title'
If you don't specify your own title, the code of the plot command is used. This is what you see.
To have no key entry for a single plot use notitle or title ''. If you don't want to have any key at all use unset key.
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I am trying to make a figure in gnuplot, similar to the bottom one on this page. Specifically, I only want an x- and y-axis on my figure at the places where there is data plotted.
For the y-axis, this works very well using the ytics rangelimited option. However, when I use xtics rangelimited on the x-axis, the x-axis border disappears:
Even more strangely, when I remove the set border option, there appears a diagonal line on my graph:
The minimal working example to make these figures is:
set terminal epslatex standalone size 8.0 cm, 8.0 cm
set output "test.tex"
# Define function
f(x) = abs(x)< 1 ? x**2 : NaN
set border 1+2 front #comment this out to get the diagonal line
set xrange [-1.5:1.5]
set xtics (-1.0,0,1.0) rangelimited nomirror
set yrange [-0.25: 1.25]
set ytics rangelimited nomirror
# plot line
plot f(x) with lines
I would like to get for the x-axis a similar result as for the y-axis. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
As a side-question: I would like to have the 0 displayed on the y-axis as well. Is there any automatic way to do this? Or should I always explicitly tell gnuplot to put a tic at 0?
The rangelimited x axis is only drawn to span data points. You have no data points because you are plotting a function. In order to have the plot behave as a data plot rather than as a function plot you can use the following convention:
plot '+' using 1:(f($1)) with lines
See gnuplot documentation for "plot special-filenames"
I'm new to gnuplot and I have a problem:
I have 2 different text files, the first one (file1.txt) is something like this:
Switch,Port,BPS
S1,1,5464091.33
S1,3,5465677.33
S2,2,5463298.00
S2,3,5462729.67
S3,1,5461340.67
S3,3,5461772.33
and I plot "file1.txt" with an histogram:
plot avg_file using 3:xticlabels(stringcolumn(1)."-".stringcolumn(2)) title columnheader
this works fine.
Now I have file2.txt which contains a single value:
AVG_BPS
4844714.81
I would like to plot this value as a constant horizontal line over the previous graph (histogram).
This is my complete script:
# Terminal definition (PNG image)
set term png
# Settings
set datafile separator ","
set output 'myplot.png'
set style data histogram
set style histogram cluster gap 1
set style fill solid border -1
set boxwidth 1
# Graph and Axis titles
set title "BPS"
set xlabel "Switch-Port"
set ylabel "bits-per-second"
# Plot
plot "file1.txt" using 3:xticlabels(stringcolumn(1)."-".stringcolumn(2)) title columnheader
Here is myplot.png:
Thanks
probably the best is to do a stats:
stats 'file2.txt' u 1
hor_value=STATS_min
and then add to your plot:
plot "file1.txt" using 3:xticlabels(stringcolumn(1)."-".stringcolumn(2)) title columnheader, hor_value
or alternatively put a line on top (before the last plot):
set arrow nohead from graph 0, hor_value to graph 1, hor_value front
Here's a fiddle for a simplified version of a plot I am trying to generate.
On line 44 the plot points are sized according to 1/Error:
main_aes = aes(x = Date, y = Popular_Support, size=1/Error)
But instead of displaying 1/Error values in the legend, I want it to display Sample Size which is 1/Error^2, which the legend title being Sample Size.
I only want this displayed in the legend, but I still want the original values to weight the point sizes.
How can I do this? How can I perform a calculation on the legend text that is displayed and change the legend title?
You can do this as follows:
plot + scale_size_continuous(breaks=seq(40,70,10), labels=seq(40,70,10)^2,
name="Sample Size")
Also, plot is an R function, so it's probably better to use a different name for your plot objects.
I am trying to plot some data and I noticed that the y-axis tick values were all the same. I tried to add more precision using y format, but it did not work. I am unsure what I may have done wrong.
I initially thought that the plots were reflective of the data, but I discovered that the values were all the same. What was initially confusing was that the y-axis just shows the same repeating value on the major tics.
There is another similar question on StackOverflow (Repeating y-axis tick labels), but the solutions there did not work for me, and I would like to understand why gnuplot does this (which is also not explained in the other question).
%> gnuplot -V
gnuplot 4.4 patchlevel 3
set term png font 'Liberation Sans,10' size 800,200
set output "data/plotid09-" . timestamp . ".png"
set style line 1 lt 1 lw 1 lc rgb "purple" pt -1
set xlabel "Time" font 'Liberation Sans,10'
set xdata time
set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
set xtics font 'Liberation Sans,10'
set ytics font 'Liberation Sans,10'
set format y "%8.4f"
set ylabel "Kelvin"
plot "data.txt" using 1:6 ls 1 smooth bezier with lines title "Temperature"
I found the problem. Thanks for the comments and feedback.
Changing the line
plot "data.txt" using 1:6 ls 1 smooth bezier with lines title "Temperature"
to
plot "data.txt" using 1:6 ls 1 with lines title "Temperature"
fixed the issue. The problem was the "smooth bezier" option. I removed it and the problem went away, I saw a flat line and appropriate numbering on the major ticks as seen below. The plot below is an example of what one of the fields look like now (similar data, same issue).
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I'm writing a script to generate three plots in a column (using multiplot and setting margins). They all share an x-axis, so it's only necessary to label that on the bottom plot, but they have separate y-axes.
I'm using the epslatex terminal in gnuplot to generate the plots with latex labels and axes. Basically, I need the numbers on the axis to use a smaller font size than the actual axis labels. So far, I've been doing this using,
reset
set term epslatex standalone color solid 10
set output 'myplot.tex'
set multiplot;
#Common width for all three plots is set
set lmargin at screen 0.15;
set rmargin at screen 0.90;
set format x ""; #Removes xlabels from plots without removing tic marks
#First plot
set tmargin at screen 0.98;
set bmargin at screen 0.72;
set ylabel '$Label Name 1$';
set format y '\scriptsize{%g}';
plot "mydata.dat" u 1:3 w l lt 1 lw 3
#Second plot
set tmargin at screen 0.70;
set bmargin at screen 0.44;
set ylabel '$Label Name 2$';
set format y '\scriptsize{%g}';
plot "mydata.dat" u 1:11 w l lt 2 lw 3
#Third plot
set tmargin at screen 0.42;
set bmargin at screen 0.16;
set xlabel 'Common Label Name';
set format x '\scriptsize{%g}'; # Here I reset the x axis so it shows on
this plot
set ylabel 'Label Name 3';
set format y '\scriptsize{%g}';
plot "mydata.dat" u 1:5 w l lt 3 lw 3
unset multiplot;
So as you can see I use latex to format the numbers in a different size, specifically \scriptsize. For the xlabel at the end, everything works fine; the numbers are at a smaller font, and the xlabel prints just beneath it at the regular size. For the ylabels, however, the numbers DO appear smaller, but the actual label names don't appear on the plot.
At first I though they weren't being acknowledged somehow, but when I experimented with the margins, I found that if I move lmargin to the middle of the page, the ylabels reappear! It seems, for whatever reason, they're just being drawn some large distance from the axes themselves.
I've tried setting the labels with an offset, but that yields no joy.
The reason for this behaviour is, that gnuplot doesn't know, how the tics with LaTeX syntax will ultimately look like. The program tries to estimate the tic label length and adjusts the label positions accordingly.
If you have a format '\scriptsize %g', the tic labels seem to be very large:
set terminal epslatex standalone
set output 'label-offset.tex'
set format y '\scriptsize %g'
set ylabel 'ylabel'
plot x
set output
system('latex label-offset.tex && dvips label-offset.dvi && ps2pdf label-offset.ps')
Gnuplot version 4.2.6 doesn't consider the \scriptsize at all and you need a very large offset to compensate it: set ylabel 'ylabel' offset 14.
Since versoin 4.4 the behaviour is better, you need an much lower offset: set ylabel 'ylabel' offset 4.
Some remarks:
\scriptsize is a switch and doesn't take an argument. Consider set xlabel '\scriptsize{scriptsize} normal?'. To limit its effect, surround the text with brackets, like {\scriptsize %g}. But that is not necessary for tic labels, since they are in any case put in brackets.
To have italic text, use \textit{label name 1}, and not the math mode with $-signs.