Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.21.MISMATCH!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!b34g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "rblove@gmail.com" Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Date Based Histogram--almost right Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:35:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4fdcd5af-3cb5-438f-8f48-c179d6622a8a@b34g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <1758c69c-660d-45b4-8818-ce6b5c67b9f2@i21g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <2fe4f446-5976-4358-a3f3-bf3891abd62d@c8g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.157.160.13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1314732924 25796 127.0.0.1 (30 Aug 2011 19:35:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:35:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b34g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.157.160.13; posting-account=w4EOlAoAAAD3g0d-J-TgIaM00bUG38YJ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESRCNK X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 Red Hat/3.6-2.el4 Firefox/3.6.20,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:560 On Aug 30, 12:46=A0pm, "rbl...@gmail.com" wrote: > On Aug 30, 10:41=A0am, sfeam wrote: > > > rbl...@gmail.com wrote: > > > My one remaining issue is I have too many xtics in the date format. > > > The x-axis is almost unreadable > > > > How can I set to every other or every 3rd date? My command file looks > > > like this: > > > reformat(date) =3D date[6:7]."/".date[9:10] > > > plot 'events.data' using 2:xtic(reformat(stringcolumn(1)) > > > =A0 reformat(date) =3D (column(0)%3 !=3D 0) ? "" : date[6:7]."/".date[9= :10] > > Hm, that doesn't seem to work. =A0I get > "datebars.gp", line 14: can only mod ints > > where my line 14 is the plot command where reformat is called. Ah, I put in an int() function and it works. Many thanks for this suggestion. /s/ Bob