From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Re: Generating boxplot (candlestick) diagrams (babel or org-plot) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:46:05 +0100 Message-ID: <2012-01-09T17-43-10@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: <2012-01-08T16-41-37@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <87k452176e.fsf@gmx.com> <2012-01-08T17-48-55@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <87boqe134r.fsf@gmx.com> Reply-To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47569) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkIMf-0002YK-0A for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:46:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkIMY-0001q0-UX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:46:28 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:40549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkIMY-0001pf-Ow for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:46:22 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkIMW-0006MP-2j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:46:20 +0100 Received: from mail.michael-prokop.at ([88.198.6.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:46:20 +0100 Received: from news1142 by mail.michael-prokop.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:46:20 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org * Eric Schulte wrote: > Karl Voit writes: > > I'm using gnuplot 4.5 patchlevel 0 which is probably where this > difference comes in. As I use gnuplot all the time, I find it > worthwhile to track the development head for nice new features such as > this and beautiful pdf plots through pgf/tikz. Glad to know that gnuplot is under active development! But CSV? ... geesh seriously? ... >> And now I also understand the problem I had: I thought that gnuplot >> is able to derive min/max whisker min/max from the data columns by >> itself. >> >> Well - this is bad news to me since I do not see any reasonable way >> to use gnuplot for that purpose. I might need to learn R or >> Python/matplotlib :-( > > Judging from the help output for boxplot it looks as though the boxplot > option *will* perform these calculations for you, if you are willing to > move to version 4.5 or later. The only downside of using new features > in gnuplot is that it is noticeably harder to find help through google. Thanks for giving me OT gnuplot support! -- Karl Voit