Re: Plotting date on xaxis

[Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com>]

Thanks guys,
I really like the org-mode community. I allways get good help with my
newbie questions!

On Thursday, February 25, 2010, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:44:33 -0700, "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>
> [...]
>
>> > Well, good intentions is one thing, wrong behaviour is another?  If
>> > the user has specified "ind:1 deps:(2)", even if org-plot identifies
>> > column 1 as having labels for the tic marks, the generated parameter
>> > to the plot command should be, at best:
>> >
>> >   ... using 1:2:xticlabels(1) ...
>> >
>>
>> I just applied a patch which results in the above plotting command, and
>> yields the following gnuplot error when the table contains an empty line
>>
>>  "illegal day of month"
>>
>> which to me seems entirely appropriate.
>
> It does indeed seem perfectly appropriate!  Thanks.
>
>> All of the plots form the org-plot page on worg still work with this
>> patch (which amounts to org-plot's test suite), so I relatively
>> confident that it shouldn't break any existing functionality.
>>
>> One problem with org-plot's attempt to guess the best action in each
>> situation is that the code will get increasingly ugly as these corner
>> cases continue to arise, and as that happens it becomes increasingly
>> difficult to know a-priori if a patch will cause unforeseen problems.
>
> Yes, I can imagine.  I guess, for Johan's benefit, that it's best to
> move on to org-babel for the more complex problems leaving the direct
> gnuplot support for "simple" cases!
>
> Thanks again,
> eric
>