Based on this post (I am using gnuplot gnuplot 4.6 patchlevel 1):
gnuplot: max and min values in a range
I am trying to use set yr [GPVAL_DATA_Y_MIN:GPVAL_DATA_Y_MAX]
in my .pg script that plots data from this .dat file:
100 2
200 4
300 9
But I get:
undefined variable: GPVAL_DATA_Y_MIN
This is my script:
set terminal png
set output 'img.png'
set xlabel 'x-label'
set ylabel 'y-label'
set boxwidth 0.5
set style fill solid
set yrange [GPVAL_DATA_Y_MIN:GPVAL_DATA_Y_MAX]
plot 'sample.dat' with boxes title ""
Any ideas?
The gnuplot-defined variables are available only after a plot
command (In the question you linked to, a replot
is used to plot again).
Basically you have different options:
First plot to terminal unknown
, and then change to the real terminal, set the range (now the variables are available), and replot
:
set xlabel 'x-label'
set ylabel 'y-label'
set boxwidth 0.5 relative
set style fill solid
set terminal unknown
plot 'sample.dat' with boxes title ""
set terminal pngcairo
set output 'img.png'
set yrange [GPVAL_DATA_Y_MIN:GPVAL_DATA_Y_MAX]
replot
Note, that I used the pngcairo
terminal, which gives much better results, than the png
terminal. And I used set boxwidth 0.5 relative
.
Use set autoscale
to fix the ranges instead of setting an explicit yrange
. You can use set offset
to specify a margin based on the autoscaled values:
set autoscale yfix
# set offset 0,0,0.5,0.5
plot 'sample.dat' with boxes title ''
Use the stats
command to extract the minimum and maximum values:
stats 'sample.dat' using 1:2
set yrange[STATS_min_y:STATS_max_y]
plot 'sample.dat' with boxes title ''