Re: [Orgmode] Gnuplot unevenly spaced non-numeric data plot?

[Nick Dokos]

John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm interested in plotting with non-numeric data for the x component of the 
> data points but don't want to have the gnuplot default of automatic spacing.
> Does anyone know a way to have a word displayed instead of a number but have 
> the words unevenly spaced according to a "hidden value"?
> 
> Example:
> 
> | 1 | x: where it should be on the scale |  y |
> |---+------------------------------------+----|
> | a |                                  0 | 10 |
> | b |                                 10 | 20 |
> | c |                                 11 | 30 |
> | d |                                 40 | 40 |
> 
> Does that make sense? If I just had the table minus the 2nd column, it would 
> space a->d evenly as if they were 0,1,2,3 or something like that. I'd like
> control over their spacing.

Gnuplot can certainly do it, but whether you can convince org-plot/gnuplot
to emit the right incantation, I don't know.

Try the following in gnuplot

        plot 'foo.data' using 2:3:xticlabels(1)

with the data file containing

,----
| a                                  0  10 
| b                                 10  20 
| c                                 11  30 
| d                                 40  40 
`----

HTH,
Nick