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Gangotri Dey
Gangotri Dey

Reputation: 1

Gnuplot transform x axis data with in the plot

I have data in this format

apple 1

bananna 3

ornage 5

fig 4

I want the x axis data to appear in the plot and not in the axis as such. Moreover they are words and not numbers.

How can I do it please?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 810

Answers (1)

mgilson
mgilson

Reputation: 309831

The question is a bit unclear. Where do you want the labels to show up? Here's an example where I'll put the label "apple" at the point (0,1) and the label "banana" at the point (1,3), etc. (each label is moved 1 unit further down the x axis):

plot 'data.dat' using (column(0)):2:1 with labels

You can also put points associated with it:

plot 'data.dat' using (column(0)):2 w p,\
             '' using (column(0)):2:1 w labels

Here the labels sit directly on top of the points. That may not be what you want -- You can add an offset:

plot 'test.dat' u (column(0)):2:1 w labels offset character 0,1,\
             '' u (column(0)):2 w p

From the documentation (help labels), it appears that the appearance of your labels should be able to be modified by pretty much any option that you can pass to set label.

The font, color, rotation angle and other properties of the printed text may be specified as additional command options (see `set label`).

Upvotes: 1

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