Gnuplot manual 4.0

Physics Handout 2 Gnuplot Basics We’ll use Gnuplot to plot and fit data. It’s free, cross-platform, does enough for our purposes, and is fairly simple to use. Gnuplot additions: See list of contributors at head of this document. 2 Introduction Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms. The source code is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don’t have to . Starting gnuplot to enter gnuplot gnuplot to enter batch gnuplot gnuplot macro_file to pipe commands to gnuplot application | gnuplot see below for environment variables you might want to change before entering gnuplot. Exiting gnuplot exit gnuplot quit All gnuplot commands can be abbreviated to the rst few unique letters, usually three characters.

Gnuplot version contains many new features, which were gradually introduced into a series of development snapshots a through k. This section lists major additions and gives a partial list of changes and minor new features. Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms. The source code is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). Gnuplot additions: Russell Lang, Dave Kotz, John Campbell. Gnuplot additions: Gershon Elber and many others. Gnuplot and additions: See list of contributors at head of this document. Introduction Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms.

gnuplot on a text file containing a set of instructions that would otherwise be entered on the command line. It can plot user-specified functions or work. Aspect ratio. 4. Points or lines. 5. Place the key. 6. Graph title. 7. Axis labels set xlabel. Updates of this tutorial for gnuplot , March Update of this tutorial for gnuplot , August 4 Other TEX-based terminal types in gnuplot.