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gnuplot Cookbook

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Product type Book

Published in Feb 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849517249

Pages 220 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Data Visualization

Author (1):

Lee Phillips

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

gnuplot Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Plotting Curves, Boxes, Points, and more

2. Annotating with Labels and Legends

3. Applying Colors and Styles

4. Controlling your Tics

5. Combining Multiple Plots

6. Including Plots in Documents

7. Programming gnuplot and Dealing with Data

8. The Third Dimension

9. Using and Making Graphical User Interfaces

10. Surveying Special Topics

Finding Help and Information

Index

Using the Java gnuplot GUI JGP

In this recipe, we learn how to get started with the JGP program, which provides a basic but serviceable GUI front end to gnuplot.

Getting ready

JGP does not come with a normal gnuplot installation. You need to go to its home page at http://jgp.sourceforge.net/ and download the source code and Java binaries (JGP is an open source project, distributed under the GPL license, and authored by Maximilian Fabricius). You can compile it yourself or simply run the supplied binaries. The current version of the software works only with the Linux operating system. I encountered no difficulties running version 0.1.2 pre alpha of the software, using the Java binaries as supplied in the download. You should have Java version 5.0 installed, and in order for JGP to find gnuplot, it must be on your path.

Tip

Where is gnuplot?

To use GUI front ends, gnuplot must be on your path. For example, if you have been typing /usr/local/bin/gnuplot, you must now add this to your path with ...

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Authors (1)

Lee Phillips

Lee Phillips grew up on the 17th floor of a public housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He attended Stuyvesant High School and Hampshire College, where he studied Physics, Mathematics, and Music. He received a Ph.D. in 1987 from Dartmouth in theoretical and computational physics for research in fluid dynamics. After completing post-doctoral work in plasma physics, Dr. Phillips was hired by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he worked on various problems, including the NIKE laser fusion project. Dr. Phillips is now the Chief Scientist of the Alogus Research Corporation, which conducts research in the physical sciences and provides technology assessment for investors.

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