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Re: histograms

From	Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject	Re: histograms
Date	2016-05-23 11:10 +0200
Organization	solani.org
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Am 23.05.2016 um 10:36 schrieb Dieter Britz:
> plot for (COL=2) '0.dat' using COL

What is this supposed to do? Why the "for" iterator?

Btw., the syntax is "plot for [COL=a:b]", with square brackets.

> It seems to me that the histogram style is different from
> that for lines or points, where I would use, e.g.
> 
> plot '0.dat' using (1:2) w p pt 6

"using (1:2)" ?!?

Yes, "histogram" style expects only one column of data, as the abscissa
is implicitly defined. The values have to equidistant and be fed
sequentially. Have you read "help histograms"?

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histograms Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-23 08:36 +0000
  Re: histograms Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2016-05-23 11:10 +0200
    Re: histograms Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-23 12:28 +0000
      Re: histograms Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2016-05-23 17:36 +0200
  Re: histograms Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4news@freenet.de> - 2016-05-23 18:48 +0200
    Re: histograms Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 11:16 +0000

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