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From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: gnuplot: plotting students' progress of grades
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:59:17 +0200
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Hi Tobias,

Tobias Frischholz <tobias@friolz.com> writes:

> Hi List,
>
> I have a table in org which looks like this (student’s grades):
>
> |---+------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+---------|
> | | Schüler | 1-fach | 1-fach | 1-fach | 1-fach | 2-fach | 2-fach | 2-fach |
> 2-fach | 4-fach | 4-fach | 4-fach | 4-fach | Endnote |
> |---+------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+---------|
> | # | Wurm, Hans | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | | 3 | 1 | 3 | | 3 | 5 | 3.18 |
> | # | Igel, Sepp | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | | | | 3 | 2 | | 3 | 6 | 3.28 |
> |---+------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+---------|
> | # | \o | 2.50 | 2.50 | 2.50 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 2.50 | 0.00 |
> 3.00 | 5.50 | 3.23 |
> |---+------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+————|
>
> I would like to use gnuplot to show me a line graph of each student’s single
> grades in order to resemble their progress during the school year.
> Can this be achieved with it?
>
> Best regards,
> Tobias Frischholz
>
> PGP PUBLIC KEY: http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0xCD463AC1&op=index

I haven't used gnuplot for a couple of decades and in recent years have
used R with org for this sort of thing, but I'm sure it's possible

Have you looked at

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-gnuplot.html

?

Cheers,

Loris

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