Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: sfeam Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: set xlabel columnheader Followup-To: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:37:14 -0700 Organization: gnuplot development team Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: sfeam@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="o91SbCCsAWDlMoXI3Mz8Xw"; logging-data="14788"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ehCmkvu68YB4EHw7gDTD0" User-Agent: KNode/4.4.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:I68h3fQS+ssDSK/VSGzkIp5b6I0= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:370 Katharina Miwege wrote: > Hello, > > I want do automatically have read out the columnheader as the xlabel/ > ylabel, maybe even with using the same column-numbers as in the plot > command. This is possible to set the key, but how do I do it with the > axislabels? Can I refer to a specific cell where the text is in? I am having trouble understanding exactly what you have in mind. Suppose the data set looks like this: MyData A B C D Monday 1 2 3 4 Tuesday 1 1 1 1 Wednesday 2 3 3 4 Thursday 1 2 4 3 You can place the weekday names along the x axis instead of the numerical coordinates that would other be using to label the axis tickmarks, and place the column headers in the key using a command like this: set key autotitle columnhead plot 'MyData' using 0:3:xticlabels(1) But I don't understand what it is that you want to place in the xlabel or ylabel. In particular I don't understand in general what you would want on the y axis. Could you clarify the question?