Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: bryan Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: sorting data within gnuplot Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 32 Message-ID: <33103250.3287.1332028941705.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbed8> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.62.36.14 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1332028941 11943 127.0.0.1 (18 Mar 2012 00:02:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.62.36.14; posting-account=PtxH9gkAAAAGMw6wJDvB_vinyKd1zCKS User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Received-Bytes: 1873 Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:983 [ gnuplot 4.6 ] I have some data like this: 06 03 2012 14.00 06 03 2012 234.22 17 03 2012 1.00 17 03 2012 23.01 17 03 2012 66.23 ... so that's date vs. cost. I would like to have gnuplot automatically shi= ft the plot over a little on the x-axis for the next cost on a given date. = as is, the costs all line up on one impulse (for example). so with impulses= , it would be nice to see perhaps (if fixed-width font works here): o o | |o o| ||o o|||o o <---- does not correspond to example above ||| ||||| | ----------------------- 06/03 17/03 18/03 if gnuplot can recognize the record number akin to awk, that might work ... ... HOWEVER I think instead I must adjust my data to be amenable to histogr= ams. in particular, inserting a column to identify each expenditure somehow= . Any suggestions appreciated. -Bryan