Plot In Gnuplot With Error Bars
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by the various errorbar styles. In the default situation, gnuplot expects to see three, four, or six numbers on each line gnuplot error bars style of the data file -- either (x, y, ydelta), (x, y, gnuplot error bars histogram ylow, yhigh), (x, y, xdelta), (x, y, xlow, xhigh), (x, y, xdelta, ydelta), or (x, y, xlow, gnuplot error bars standard deviation xhigh, ylow, yhigh). The x coordinate must be specified. The order of the numbers must be exactly as given above, though the using qualifier can manipulate the order and gnuplot set bars provide values for missing columns. For example, plot 'file' with errorbars plot 'file' using 1:2:(sqrt($1)) with xerrorbars plot 'file' using 1:2:($1-$3):($1+$3):4:5 with xyerrorbars The last example is for a file containing an unsupported combination of relative x and absolute y errors. The using entry generates absolute x min and max from the relative error. The y error bar
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is a vertical line plotted from (x, ylow) to (x, yhigh). If ydelta is specified instead of ylow and yhigh, ylow = y - ydelta and yhigh = y + ydelta are derived. If there are only two numbers on the record, yhigh and ylow are both set to y. The x error bar is a horizontal line computed in the same fashion. To get lines plotted between the data points, plot the data file twice, once with errorbars and once with lines (but remember to use the notitle option on one to avoid two entries in the key). Alternately, use the errorlines command (see errorlines (p.)). The error bars have crossbars at each end unless set bars is used (see set bars (p.) for details). If autoscaling is on, the ranges will be adjusted to include the error bars. See also http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/mgr.htmlerrorbar demos. See plot using (p.), plot with (p.), and set style (p.) for more information. Next: Errorlines Up: Plot Previous: Zticlabels Contents Index Ethan Merritt 2007-03-03
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Koenig David Kotz Ed Kubaitis Russell Lang Timothée Lecomte gnuplot boxerrorbars Alexander Lehmann Alexander Mai Ethan A Merritt Petr Mikulík Carsten Steger Tom Tkacik gnuplot boxerrorbars example Jos Van der Woude Alex Woo James R. Van Zandt Johannes Zellner Copyright © 1986 - 1993, 1998, 2004 Thomas Williams, Colin http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/docs_4.2/node140.html Kelley Copyright © 2004 - 2009 various authors Mailing list for comments: gnuplot-info@lists.sourceforge.net Mailing list for bug reports: gnuplot-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net Web access (preferred): http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot This manual was originally prepared by Dick Crawford. 1 September 2009 Contents I Gnuplot 1 Copyright 2 Introduction 3 Seeking-assistance 4 New features http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_4.2/gnuplot.html introduced in version 4.2 4.1 New plot styles 4.1.1 Histogram 4.1.2 Label plots 4.1.3 Image data 4.1.4 Filled curves 4.1.5 Vectors 4.2 Input from binary data files 4.3 New plot elements 4.3.1 RGB colors 4.3.2 Arbitrary rectangles 4.4 String handling 4.4.1 String and text data read from datafiles 4.4.2 User-defined string variables, operators, and functions 4.5 Macros 4.6 Auto-layout of multiple plots on a page 4.7 Internal variables 4.8 New or revised terminal drivers 4.8.1 wxt 4.8.2 emf 4.8.3 gif, jpeg, png 4.8.4 postscript 4.8.5 ai 4.8.6 epslatex, pslatex, pstex 4.8.7 windows 4.9 Canvas size 5 Backwards compatibility 6 Features introduced in version 4.0 6.1 Mouse and hotkey support in interactive terminals 6.2 New terminals 6.3 New plot style pm3d 6.4 Filled boxes 6.5 New plot option smooth frequency 6.6 Improve
in those tutorials using gnuplot, a command-line-driven plotting program commonly available on Unix machines (though available for other platforms as well). You may find https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~vrable/gnuplot/using-gnuplot.html it helpful to look at the other tutorials as well; this one is intended to follow them quite closely. The instructions and samples given correspond to version 3.7 running under Linux, but the results should be similar everywhere. If you are using an older version, however, you might find a few of the more advanced features missing. Introduction gnuplot seems error bars almost the antithesis of Kaleidagraph: the the Kaleidagraph tutorial calls Kaleidagraph "an easy-to-use if somewhat limited graphics program". gnuplot is a not-quite-as-easy-to use, though extremely powerful, command-line plotting program. Running gnuplot is easy: from a command prompt on any system, type gnuplot. It is even possible to do this over a telnet or ssh connection, and preview the graphs in text gnuplot error bars mode! For best results, however, you should run gnuplot from within X Window, so that you can see better previews of your plots. Entering Data All the data sets you use in gnuplot should be typed into a text file first. There should be one data point per line. Each data point will consist of several numbers: the independent variable, the dependent variable, and optionally error bars. Each of these fields should be separated by a tab. Actually, any number of fields may be specified on each line; this is useful if you have multiple measurements for each data point, for instance. For information about how to access this additional information in your plots, see (fixme: add section) below. You may include any extra information you want in the file, such as a description of the data, headings for each of the data columns, and so on, as long as each such line begins with the comment character, #. The dataset used in this example is available in the file cavendish.data. Plotting Functions Basic Plotting Plotting functions in gnuplot is re