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Re: missing STATS_size_x and y on Debian

From Ethan A Merritt <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject Re: missing STATS_size_x and y on Debian
Date 2016-02-02 09:10 -0800
Organization gnuplot development
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RockDoctor wrote:

> On Monday, 1 February 2016 11:01:31 UTC, Jörg Buchholz  wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> "stats 'file' matrix" gives the two varaiables STATS_size_x and
>> STATS_size_y back.
>> 
>> file matrix.dat:
>> 4 5 6
>> 2 3 1
>> 4 2 2
>> 
>> stats 'matrix.dat' matrix
>> 
>> show variables
>> ...
>> STATS_size_x = 3.0
>> STATS_size_y = 3.0
>> 
>> 
>> On Debian, gnuplot 5.0.2, these variables are not present. On Win and
>> other Linux (Lubuntu, Fedora) they are present.
>> 
>> So it looks like a Debian bug or problem.
>> 
>> Can anyone confirm this.
>> 
>> Jörg
> 
> I don't use GnuPlot on anything at the moment (have used it in the past,
> and may use it in the future, which is why I track this group), so I can't
> verify this. But ... if these statistics are counts of columns and rows in
> the submitted data, which they certainly seem to be, then surely they
> would naturally be integer values, not reals? I'm sure you can re-cast
> them later into reals if you need reals, but the original metric is
> naturally an integer.

Indeed, all the STATS values are reals.
Splitting out the subset that are properly interger values is
on the TODO list but hasn't been a high priority task. 


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missing STATS_size_x and y on Debian Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2016-02-01 12:01 +0100
  Re: missing STATS_size_x and y on Debian Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2016-02-01 22:55 -0800
  Re: missing STATS_size_x and y on Debian RockDoctor <akarley@gmail.com> - 2016-02-02 04:57 -0800
    Re: missing STATS_size_x and y on Debian Ethan A Merritt <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-02-02 09:10 -0800
    Re: missing STATS_size_x and y on Debian Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4news@freenet.de> - 2016-02-02 20:18 +0100
  Re: missing STATS_size_x and y on Debian Michael Hofmann <michael.hofmann@s2000.tu-chemnitz.de> - 2016-02-03 09:28 +0100
    Re: missing STATS_size_x and y on Debian Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4news@freenet.de> - 2016-02-03 19:27 +0100

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