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Subject: Re: using stats on two column data file
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Am 23.10.2016 um 15:33 schrieb stuart.kendrick.sea@gmail.com:

> I can use stats successfully a data file consisting of a single
> column but not in a file with two columns. Suggestions on how to figure
> out what I am fumbling?

The key to the mystery is that, as far as you've told gnuplot by the 
time your script issues the 'stat' command, that data file has not 2, 
but 3 columns:

> 2015-10-25 14, 95
> 2015-10-30 04, 474
> 2015-11-01 12, 93
> 2015-11-01 13, 320
> 2015-11-01 14, 425
> 2015-11-01 15, 80

If you want 'stats' to treat that as a 2-column file, you have to
place this:

 > # File specifics
 > set datafile sep ','

_before_ the stats command.