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How to make of use of GNUPLOT in Linux for plotting graphs by taking inputs from files?

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How to make of use of GNUPLOT in Linux for plotting graphs by taking input from files? Data in one file represents X-axis and other file data represents Y-axis. Can anyone help me out?

posted Feb 6, 2014 by Gurpreet Singh Matharoo

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Datafile for gnupot looks like this
# X      Y
10000.0 0.01
100000.0 0.05
1000000.0 0.45

So you can pick line by line from each file i.e. file containing X and Y and merge them then use gnupot. Let me know if you need some help in that...

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Traditionally, gnuplot data files contain multiple columns, e.g.:

# x y
  1 2
  5 10
  6 12

gnuplot does not support two single-column files, so I think you need to merge two files, e.g.

plot "< join file1.dat file2.dat"

if I remember right....

As an aside, if you are going to be doing any data manipulation or regression or such, I'd consider moving to R.

answer Feb 6, 2014 by anonymous
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You have to first merge file1 and file2 like this:

paste file1 file2 > merged

then you can plot what you want in gnuplot:

plot "merged" 1:2
answer Feb 7, 2014 by anonymous
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