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gnuplot Cookbook

You're reading from  gnuplot Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517249
Pages 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Lee Phillips Lee Phillips
Profile icon Lee Phillips

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

gnuplot Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Plotting Curves, Boxes, Points, and more Annotating with Labels and Legends Applying Colors and Styles Controlling your Tics Combining Multiple Plots Including Plots in Documents Programming gnuplot and Dealing with Data The Third Dimension Using and Making Graphical User Interfaces Surveying Special Topics Finding Help and Information
Index

Sharing with Plotshare


This section will explain how to get graphs from gnuplot even if you don't have gnuplot installed.

How to do it…

Go to http://www.plotshare.com/. You will find a web page with a box near the top. Enter a gnuplot script in the box and click the execute button, and you will get the same result as if you had run the script through gnuplot on your own machine. You can even upload datafiles to be saved on the server and plotted.

In addition to providing graphing services, this website is designed so you can share your gnuplot scripts with others and work on them collaboratively. You can click on the recent tab to see the scripts and resulting output submitted by other users, which can be a fun and interesting way to learn about the program.

The previous screenshot shows what the recent section of the Plotshare website looks like.

How it works…

Because gnuplot is a C program with the ability to use the filesystem, execute system commands, and do other powerful and dangerous things...

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