gnuplot demo script
# # Example of using histogram modes # set title "US immigration from Europe by decade" set datafile missing "-" set xtics nomirror rotate by -45 set key noenhanced # # First plot using linespoints set style data linespoints plot '[Link]' using 2:xtic(1) title columnheader(2), \ for [i=3:22] '' using i title columnheader(i) # Click here for minimal script to generate this plot
# set terminal png transparent nocrop enhanced font arial 8 size 420,320 # set output '[Link]' set datafile missing '-' set style data linespoints set xtics border in scale 1,0.5 nomirror rotate by -45 offset character 0, 0, 0 set xtics ("1891-1900" 0.00000, "1901-1910" 1.00000, "1911-1920" 2.00000, "1921-1930" 3.00000, "1931-1940" 4.00000, "1941-1950" 5.00000, "1951-1960" 6.00000, "1961-1970" 7.00000) set title "US immigration from Europe by decade" plot '[Link]' using 2:xtic(1) t 2, '' u 3 t 3, '' u 4 t 4, '' u 5 t 5, '' u 6 t 6, '' u 7 t 7, '' u 8 t 8, '' u 9 t 9, '' u 10 t 10, '' u 11 t 11, '' u 12 t 12, '' u 13 t 13, '' u 14 t 14, '' u 15 t 15, '' u 16 t 16, '' u 17 t 17, '' u 18 t 18, '' u 19 t 19, '' u 20 t 20, '' u 21 t 21, '' u 22 t 22
# set title "US immigration from Northern Europe\nPlot selected data columns as histogram of clustered boxes" set auto x set yrange [0:300000] set style data histogram set style histogram cluster gap 1 set style fill solid border -1 set boxwidth 0.9 set xtic rotate by -45 scale 0 #set bmargin 10 plot '[Link]' using 6:xtic(1) ti col, '' u 12 ti col, '' u 13 ti col, '' u 14 ti col # Click here for minimal script to generate this plot
# set terminal png transparent nocrop enhanced font arial 8 size 420,320 # set output '[Link]' set boxwidth 0.9 absolute set style fill solid 1.00 border -1 set style histogram clustered gap 1 title offset character 0, 0, 0 set datafile missing '-' set style data histograms set xtics border in scale 1,0.5 nomirror rotate by -45 offset character 0, 0, 0 set xtics ("1891-1900" 0.00000, "1901-1910" 1.00000, "1911-1920" 2.00000, "1921-1930" 3.00000, "1931-1940" 4.00000, "1941-1950" 5.00000, "1951-1960" 6.00000, "1961-1970" 7.00000) set title "US immigration from Northern Europe\nPlot selected data columns as histogram of clustered boxes" set yrange [ 0.00000 : 300000. ] noreverse nowriteback plot '[Link]' using 6:xtic(1) ti col, '' u 12 ti col, '' u 13 ti col, '' u 14 ti col
# set title "US immigration from Northern Europe\n(same plot with larger gap between clusters)" set style histogram gap 5 replot # Click here for minimal script to generate this plot
# set terminal png transparent nocrop enhanced font arial 8 size 420,320 # set output '[Link]' set boxwidth 0.9 absolute set style fill solid 1.00 border -1 set style histogram clustered gap 5 title offset character 0, 0, 0 set datafile missing '-' set style data histograms set xtics border in scale 1,0.5 nomirror rotate by -45 offset character 0, 0, 0 set xtics ("1891-1900" 0.00000, "1901-1910" 1.00000, "1911-1920" 2.00000, "1921-1930" 3.00000, "1931-1940" 4.00000, "1941-1950" 5.00000, "1951-1960" 6.00000, "1961-1970" 7.00000) set title "US immigration from Northern Europe\n(same plot with larger gap between clusters)" set yrange [ 0.00000 : 300000. ] noreverse nowriteback plot '[Link]' using 6:xtic(1) ti col, '' u 12 ti col, '' u 13 ti col, '' u 14 ti col
# # # Stacked histograms # set title "US immigration from Europe by decade\nPlot as stacked histogram" set key invert reverse Left outside set key autotitle columnheader set yrange [0:7e6] set auto x unset xtics set xtics nomirror rotate by -45 scale 0 set style data histogram set style histogram rowstacked set style fill solid border -1 set boxwidth 0.75 # plot '[Link]' using 2:xtic(1), for [i=3:22] '' using i # Click here for minimal script to generate this plot
# set terminal png transparent nocrop enhanced font arial 8 size 420,320 # set output '[Link]' set boxwidth 0.75 absolute set style fill solid 1.00 border -1 set key outside right top vertical Left reverse enhanced autotitles columnhead nobox set key invert samplen 4 spacing 1 width 0 height 0 set style histogram rowstacked title offset character 0, 0, 0 set datafile missing '-' set style data histograms set xtics border in scale 1,0.5 nomirror rotate by -45 offset character 0, 0, 0 set xtics ("1891-1900" 0.00000, "1901-1910" 1.00000, "1911-1920" 2.00000, "1921-1930" 3.00000, "1931-1940" 4.00000, "1941-1950" 5.00000, "1951-1960" 6.00000, "1961-1970" 7.00000) set title "US immigration from Europe by decade\nPlot as stacked histogram" set yrange [ 0.00000 : 7.00000e+06 ] noreverse nowriteback i = 23 plot '[Link]' using 2:xtic(1), for [i=3:22] '' using i
# # Stacked histograms by percent # set title "US immigration from Europe by decade\nFraction of total plotted as stacked histogram" set key invert reverse Left outside set yrange [0:100] set ylabel "% of total" unset ytics set grid y set border 3 set style data histograms set style histogram rowstacked set style fill solid border -1 set boxwidth 0.75 # plot '[Link]' using (100.*$2/$24):xtic(1) t column(2), \ for [i=3:23] '' using (100.*column(i)/column(24)) title column(i) # Click here for minimal script to generate this plot
# set terminal png transparent nocrop enhanced font arial 8 size 420,320 # set output '[Link]' set border 3 front linetype -1 linewidth 1.000 set boxwidth 0.75 absolute set style fill solid 1.00 border -1 set grid nopolar set grid noxtics nomxtics ytics nomytics noztics nomztics \ nox2tics nomx2tics noy2tics nomy2tics nocbtics nomcbtics set grid layerdefault linetype 0 linewidth 1.000, linetype 0 linewidth 1.000 set key outside right top vertical Left reverse enhanced autotitles columnhead nobox set key invert samplen 4 spacing 1 width 0 height 0 set style histogram rowstacked title offset character 0, 0, 0 set datafile missing '-' set style data histograms set xtics border in scale 1,0.5 nomirror rotate by -45 offset character 0, 0, 0 set xtics ("1891-1900" 0.00000, "1901-1910" 1.00000, "1911-1920" 2.00000, "1921-1930" 3.00000, "1931-1940" 4.00000, "1941-1950" 5.00000, "1951-1960" 6.00000, "1961-1970" 7.00000) set noytics set title "US immigration from Europe by decade\nFraction of total plotted as stacked histogram" set ylabel "% of total" set yrange [ 0.00000 : 100.000 ] noreverse nowriteback i = 24 plot '[Link]' using (100.*$2/$24):xtic(1) t 2, for [i=3:23] '' using (100.*column(i)/column(24)) title column(i)
# # Columnstacks # xtic labels should be picked up from column heads ('title column') # key titles should be picked up from row heads ('key(1)') # set title "Immigration from Northern Europe\n(columstacked histogram)" set style histogram columnstacked set key noinvert box set yrange [0:*] set ylabel "Immigration by decade" set xlabel "Country of Origin" set tics scale 0.0 set ytics unset xtics set xtics norotate nomirror plot '[Link]' using 6 ti col, '' using 12 ti col, \ '' using 13 ti col, '' using 14:key(1) ti col # Click here for minimal script to generate this plot
# set terminal png transparent nocrop enhanced font arial 8 size 420,320 # set output '[Link]' set border 3 front linetype -1 linewidth 1.000 set boxwidth 0.75 absolute set style fill solid 1.00 border -1 set grid nopolar set grid noxtics nomxtics ytics nomytics noztics nomztics \ nox2tics nomx2tics noy2tics nomy2tics nocbtics nomcbtics set grid layerdefault linetype 0 linewidth 1.000, linetype 0 linewidth 1.000 set key outside right top vertical Left reverse enhanced autotitles columnhead box linetype -1 linewidth 1.000 set style histogram columnstacked title offset character 0, 0, 0 set datafile missing '-' set style data histograms set xtics border in scale 1,0.5 nomirror norotate offset character 0, 0, 0 set xtics ("Denmark" 0.500000, "Netherlands" 1.50000, "Norway" 2.50000, "Sweden" 3.50000) set ytics border in scale 0,0 mirror norotate offset character 0, 0, 0 autofreq set ztics border in scale 0,0 nomirror norotate offset character 0, 0, 0 autofreq set cbtics border in scale 0,0 mirror norotate offset character 0, 0, 0 autofreq set title "Immigration from Northern Europe\n(columstacked histogram)" set xlabel "Country of Origin" set ylabel "Immigration by decade" set yrange [ 0.00000 : * ] noreverse nowriteback # (currently [:100.000] ) i = 24 plot '[Link]' using 6 ti col, '' using 12 ti col, '' using 13 ti col, '' using 14:key(1) ti col
# # 'newhistogram' keyword to plot # set title "Immigration from different regions\n(give each histogram a separate title)" set key under nobox set style histogram clustered gap 1 title offset 2,0.25 set style fill solid noborder set boxwidth 0.95 unset xtics set xtics nomirror rotate by -45 scale 0 set xlabel "(note: histogram titles have specified offset relative to X-axis label)" offset 0,-2 set ytics set grid y set auto y plot \ newhistogram "Northern Europe", \ '[Link]' using 6:xtic(1) t col, '' u 13 t col, '' u 14 t col, \ newhistogram "Southern Europe", \ '' u 9:xtic(1) t col, '' u 17 t col, '' u 22 t col, \ newhistogram "British Isles", \ '' u 10:xtic(1) t col, '' u 21 t col # Click here for minimal script to generate this plot
# set terminal png transparent nocrop enhanced font arial 8 size 420,320 # set output '[Link]' set border 3 front linetype -1 linewidth 1.000 set boxwidth 0.95 absolute set style fill solid 1.00 noborder set grid nopolar set grid noxtics nomxtics ytics nomytics noztics nomztics \ nox2tics nomx2tics noy2tics nomy2tics nocbtics nomcbtics set grid layerdefault linetype 0 linewidth 1.000, linetype 0 linewidth 1.000 set key bmargin center horizontal Left reverse enhanced autotitles columnhead nobox set style histogram clustered gap 1 title offset character 2, 0.25, 0 set datafile missing '-' set style data histograms set xtics border in scale 1,0.5 nomirror rotate by -45 offset character 0, 0, 0 set xtics ("1891-1900" 0.00000, "1901-1910" 1.00000, "1911-1920" 2.00000, "1921-1930" 3.00000, "1931-1940" 4.00000, "1941-1950" 5.00000, "1951-1960" 6.00000, "1961-1970" 7.00000, "1891-1900" 9.00000, "1901-1910" 10.0000, "1911-1920" 11.0000, "1921-1930" 12.0000, "1931-1940" 13.0000, "1941-1950" 14.0000, "1951-1960" 15.0000, "1961-1970" 16.0000, "1891-1900" 18.0000, "1901-1910" 19.0000, "1911-1920" 20.0000, "1921-1930" 21.0000, "1931-1940" 22.0000, "1941-1950" 23.0000, "1951-1960" 24.0000, "1961-1970" 25.0000) set ytics border in scale 0,0 mirror norotate offset character 0, 0, 0 autofreq set ztics border in scale 0,0 nomirror norotate offset character 0, 0, 0 autofreq set cbtics border in scale 0,0 mirror norotate offset character 0, 0, 0 autofreq set title "Immigration from different regions\n(give each histogram a separate title)" set xlabel "(note: histogram titles have specified offset relative to X-axis label)" set xlabel offset character 0, -2, 0 font "" textcolor lt -1 norotate set ylabel "Immigration by decade" set yrange [ * : * ] noreverse nowriteback # (currently [0.00000:100.000] ) i = 24
plot newhistogram "Northern Europe", '[Link]' using 6:xtic(1) t 6, '' u 13 t 13, '' u 14 t 14, newhistogram "Southern Europe", '' u 9:xtic(1) t 9, '' u 17 t 17, '' u 22 t 22, newhistogram "British Isles", '' u 10:xtic(1) t 10, '' u 21 t 21
# set style histogram rows set boxwidth 0.8 set yrange [0:900000] set xlabel "(Same plot using rowstacked rather than clustered histogram)" replot # Click here for minimal script to generate this plot
# set terminal png transparent nocrop enhanced font arial 8 size 420,320 # set output '[Link]' set border 3 front linetype -1 linewidth 1.000 set boxwidth 0.8 absolute set style fill solid 1.00 noborder set grid nopolar set grid noxtics nomxtics ytics nomytics noztics nomztics \ nox2tics nomx2tics noy2tics nomy2tics nocbtics nomcbtics set grid layerdefault linetype 0 linewidth 1.000, linetype 0 linewidth 1.000 set key bmargin center horizontal Left reverse enhanced autotitles columnhead nobox set style histogram rowstacked title offset character 2, 0.25, 0 set datafile missing '-' set style data histograms set xtics border in scale 1,0.5 nomirror rotate by -45 offset character 0, 0, 0 set xtics ("1891-1900" 0.00000, "1901-1910" 1.00000, "1911-1920" 2.00000, "1921-1930" 3.00000, "1931-1940" 4.00000, "1941-1950" 5.00000, "1951-1960" 6.00000, "1961-1970" 7.00000, "1891-1900" 9.00000, "1901-1910" 10.0000, "1911-1920" 11.0000, "1921-1930" 12.0000, "1931-1940" 13.0000, "1941-1950" 14.0000, "1951-1960" 15.0000, "1961-1970" 16.0000, "1891-1900" 18.0000, "1901-1910" 19.0000, "1911-1920" 20.0000, "1921-1930" 21.0000, "1931-1940" 22.0000, "1941-1950" 23.0000, "1951-1960" 24.0000, "1961-1970" 25.0000) set ytics border in scale 0,0 mirror norotate offset character 0, 0, 0 autofreq set ztics border in scale 0,0 nomirror norotate offset character 0, 0, 0 autofreq set cbtics border in scale 0,0 mirror norotate offset character 0, 0, 0 autofreq set title "Immigration from different regions\n(give each histogram a separate title)" set xlabel "(Same plot using rowstacked rather than clustered histogram)" set xlabel offset character 0, -2, 0 font "" textcolor lt -1 norotate set ylabel "Immigration by decade" set yrange [ 0.00000 : 900000. ] noreverse nowriteback i = 24 plot newhistogram "Northern Europe", '[Link]' using 6:xtic(1) t 6, '' u 13 t 13, '' u 14 t 14, newhistogram "Southern Europe", '' u 9:xtic(1) t 9, '' u 17 t 17, '' u 22 t 22, newhistogram "British Isles", '' u 10:xtic(1) t 10, '' u 21 t 21
