Plotting a Single Point with Gnuplot
Posted on September 27th, 2008 by admin
Sometimes simple things can be very hard to do. For instance plotting a single point with gnuplot. Luckily, there are two horrible hacks which allow you to accomplish this from the gnuplot prompt (putting the point’s coordinates in a file is of course just the easy way out…).
Method 1:
gnuplot> plot “< echo ‘x y’”
(Set x and y to your point’s x and y coordinate)
Method 2:
gnuplot> plot “-” (press shift enter)
x y (press enter)
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This information is really helpful.
I would gladly strangle all the people who helped gnuplot arrive to be the most important plotting tool software without even thinking of resolving this banal task.