Gnuplot cheatsheet

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Gnuplot is, along with xmgrace, my program of choice to plot data. I even make a script to plot data on the fly, directly from bash.

From the official website:

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). It was originally created to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively, but has grown to support many non-interactive uses such as web scripting. It is also used as a plotting engine by third-party applications like Octave. Gnuplot has been supported and under active development since 1986.

Gnuplot supports many types of plots in either 2D and 3D. It can draw using lines, points, boxes, contours, vector fields, surfaces, and various associated text. It also supports various specialized plot types. Demos here.

Gnuplot supports many different types of output: interactive screen terminals (with mouse and hotkey input), direct output to pen plotters or modern printers, and output to many file formats (eps, fig, jpeg, LaTeX, metafont, pbm, pdf, png, postscript, svg, …). Gnuplot is easily extensible to include new output modes. Recent additions include an interactive terminal based on wxWidgets and the creation of mousable graphs for web display using the HTML5 canvas element.

You can easily install gnuplot in linux, since is in the repository of all the main distro.

I encourage my students to use gnuplot and to help them, I made a cheatsheet.

This cheatsheet is far to be complete, but just time gnuplot in google and you will have tons of results, tutorials, guides, examples… An amazingly useful link for gnuplot is this.

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