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I have a file that contains 4 numbers (min, max, mean, standard derivation) and I would like to plot it with gnuplot.
Sample:
24 31 29.0909 2.57451
12 31 27.2727 5.24129
14 31 26.1818 5.04197
22 31 27.7273 3.13603
22 31 28.1818 2.88627
If I have 4 files with one column, then I can do:
gnuplot "file1.txt" with lines, "file2.txt" with lines, "file3.txt" with lines, "file4.txt" with lines
And it will plot 4 curves. I do not care about the x-axis, it should just be a constant increment.
How could I please plot? I can't seem to find a way to have 4 curves with 1 file with 4 columns, just having a constantly incrementing x value.
Thank you.
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5.9 Does gnuplot support multiple y-axes on a single plot? Yes.
To plot functions simply type: plot [function] at the gnuplot> prompt. Discrete data contained in a file can be displayed by specifying the name of the data file (enclosed in quotes) on the plot or splot command line. Data files should have the data arranged in columns of numbers.
splot is the command for drawing 3-d plots (well, actually projections on a 2-d surface, but you knew that). It can create a plot from functions or a data file in a manner very similar to the plot command. See plot (p. ) for features common to the plot (p. ) command; only differences are discussed in detail here.
Gnuplot can read binary data files. However, adequate information about details of the file format must be given on the command line or extracted from the file itself for a supported binary filetype. In particular, there are two structures for binary files, a matrix binary format and a general binary format.
You can plot different columns of the same file like this:
plot 'file' using 0:1 with lines, '' using 0:2 with lines ...
(... means continuation). A couple of notes on this notation: using specifies which column to plot i.e. column 0 and 1 in the first using statement, the 0th column is a pseudo column that translates to the current line number in the data file. Note that if only one argument is used with using (e.g. using n) it corresponds to saying using 0:n (thanks for pointing that out mgilson).
If your Gnuplot version is recent enough, you would be able to plot all 4 columns with a for-loop:
set key outside
plot for [col=1:4] 'file' using 0:col with lines
Result:
Gnuplot can use column headings for the title if they are in the data file, e.g.:
min max mean std
24 31 29.0909 2.57451
12 31 27.2727 5.24129
14 31 26.1818 5.04197
22 31 27.7273 3.13603
22 31 28.1818 2.88627
and
set key outside
plot for [col=1:4] 'file' using 0:col with lines title columnheader
Results in:
90
Just to add that you can specify the increment in the for loop as third argument. It is useful if you want to plot every nth column.
plot for [col=START:END:INC] 'file' using col with lines
In this case it changes nothing but anyway:
plot for [col=1:4:1] 'file' using col with lines
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