Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.localnet!news.posted.localnet.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:37:53 -0500 From: James Cloos Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: How to extract point data. References: <31706069.122.1319044340309.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yqoo7> <15457819.543.1319094520134.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prng5> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2011 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:34:10 -0400 Message-ID: Cancel-Lock: sha1:W45dYVsIqxJlmDuEt3VRrSSt+Hs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.48.11.21 X-Trace: sv3-preLx5TIXMDtvQNd/+ich81ivh/E0Q13UWH6eYCLU1gpu7NNVvFjf9TeadSBw93mq2F/hb5Tu2PENl/!bpcI6qKoFwNUAN44Hipvj/XwihoxKWfYho65+nTqqIBxVCV8eNt1cNGeGg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@localnet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@localnet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2256 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:653 >>>>> "N" == Naren writes: N> I want automate the process without requiring user interaction ... N> As I have lots of data files and I need to repeat the action in every file. Then gnuplot is not what you are looking for. Try R, octave, scilab, sage or the like. Or perl, python, ruby, java, et cetera. All of those can fit a function to a set a data which you can then use to map inputs to outputs. (Some of those projects can (optionally) use gnuplot to render plots.) Links include: http://www.r-project.org/ http://www.octave.org/ http://www.scilab.org/ http://www.sagemath.org/ -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6