From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Re: Generating boxplot (candlestick) diagrams (babel or org-plot) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 18:30:37 +0100 Message-ID: <2012-01-08T17-48-55@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: <2012-01-08T16-41-37@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <87k452176e.fsf@gmx.com> Reply-To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58725) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rjwa7-0003hp-8y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:30:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rjwa5-0003BU-Pt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:30:55 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59962) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rjwa5-0003BO-IB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:30:53 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rjwa2-0003Fc-V3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:30:50 +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 ; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:30:50 +0100 Received: from news1142 by mail.michael-prokop.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:30:50 +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 Hi Eric! * Eric Schulte wrote: > > In more complex examples like these I would recommend using a gnuplot > code block rather than using Org-plot. Thought so. Thanks for confirmation. > Gnuplot has an extremely > comprehensive built in help system, typing "help boxplot" at the gnuplot > REPL returns the following. My gnuplot (Version 4.4 patchlevel 2) returns: ,---- | gnuplot> help boxplot | Sorry, no help for 'boxplot' | gnuplot> `---- gnuplot-doc is installed. Do I miss something else? «help candlestick» works. Is «boxplot» a part of an additional extension package? > Also see the help for "candlestick". Using this information the > attached Org-mode file generates a candlestick plot using a Gnuplot code > block. > > #+name: sample >| x | box_min | whisker_min | whisker_high | box_high | >|---+---------+-------------+--------------+----------| > > #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=sample :results silent > set xrange [0:7] > plot data using 1:2:3:4:5 with candlesticks > #+end_src Your example works like charm at my side. 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 :-( Thanks for your help anyway! -- Karl Voit