Re: using gnuplot's "splot" and "every" commands on org-mode table data

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

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Paul Stansell <paulstansell@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> My view is that the removal of '""'s will always be preferable for
> gnuplot as it uses what it calls datablocks which are delimited by
> blank lines (see, for example,
> http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/docs_4.2/node121.html and
> http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/docs_4.2/node61.html).
>
> Paul

Hi Paul,

I think examples like the following may be more common than data
blocks.


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#+name: data
| 1 |  2 |
| 2 |  4 |
| 3 |  8 |
|   | 16 |
|   |    |
| 6 | 16 |
| 7 |  8 |
|   |  4 |
| 9 |  2 |

#+begin_src gnuplot :var data=data :results silent
  plot data u 0:1, '' u 0:2
#+end_src

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Replacing ""s with blank space in the following breaks the resulting
plot.

Cheers,

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte