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Re: [Orgmode] Re: plotting when x-axis has non-numeric data
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Eric Schulte |
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Re: [Orgmode] Re: plotting when x-axis has non-numeric data |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:56:16 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Henry,
Thanks for bringing up this bug.
While for any serious plotting I would certainly recommend using
Org-babel over org-plot, org-plot should still function correctly. I've
just pushed up a fix to the bug you described, so your previous table
should work once again.
Thanks -- Eric
henry atting <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sa, Feb 27 2010, henry atting wrote:
>
>> I have a table which I am plotting longly, it looks like this:
>>
>> #+PLOT: title:"expenses" ind:1 type:2d with:lines
>> #+PLOT: set:"yrange [0:]" labels:("month" "expenses" "average")
>> | month | two |three|
>> |------------+--------+-----|
>> | November | 500 | 500 |
>> | December | 500 | 500 |
>> | January | 600 | 500 |
>> | February | 400 | 500 |
>>
>> Thus far it was no problem that the x-axis contains non-numeric data.
>> Now gnuplot stops with this error message:
>>
>> gnuplot> plot '/tmp/org-plot18686CtJ' using 1:3:xticlabel(1) with lines
>> title 'H-index'
>> warning: Skipping data file with no valid points
>> x range is invalid
>>
>> When I try to plot the table 'Citas' from this tutorial [1] I get the
>> same error message.
>>
>> henry
>>
>> ___
>>
>> [1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-plot.php
>
> Okay, I see; for some reason the following statement is not more valid:
>
> ,----[ From: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-plot.php ]
> | Org-plot can also produce histograms from 2d data, plot the following
> | table. Notice that the column specified as ind contains textual
> | non-numeric data, when this is the case org-plot will use the data as
> | labels for the x-axis using the gnuplot xticlabels() function.
> `----
>
> As far as I see, you have to do it with org-babel now, which works just
> as well for me.
>
> henry