[haskell-gnuplot] histogram

[Henning Thielemann]

Hi Michael,


On Tue, 31 May 2011, Michael Litchard wrote:

> set terminal png transparent nocrop enhanced font arial 8 size 820,820
> set output 'histograms.2.png'
> set boxwidth 0.9 absolute
> set style fill   solid 1.00 border -1
> set style histogram clustered gap 1 title  offset character 0, 0, 0
> set style data histograms
> set xtics   ("220" 0.00000, "320" 1.00000, "420" 2.00000, "520" 3.00000, "620" 4.00000, "720" 5.00000)
> set title "Comparison of how well software revisions perform on each hardware version"
> set yrange [ 0.00000 : 3000. ] noreverse nowriteback
> plot 'example.dat' using 2:xtic(1) ti col, '' u 3 ti col, '' u 4 ti col, '' u 5 ti col


Please get the latest version from the darcs repository and see, whether 
this helps you:
   darcs get http://code.haskell.org/gnuplot/

Your script helped me to see, what you need and let me re-engineer, what 
gnuplot is actually doing. Gnuplot maintains a lot of internal state, that 
is neither documented nor is it implied by the syntax. I need to know how 
these state interact, since I want to have a functional style interface, 
that is more composable in my opinion. I needed to find out, that 'ti', 
'u', 'col' are abbreviations and what they mean, that 'set style data 
histograms' can also be written in a stateless way in the plot command by 
the 'with' clause, and that histograms can be mixed with other kinds of 
plots. I had to find out, that the 'title offset' does not belong to 
histograms and can be written in a separate line, and that the ":xtic(1)" 
is equivalent to the 'set xtics' command, that is, they are redundant.
  I hope I got it right now and put your example into Demo.