m_tics family of options
Mac OS X
building gnuplot from source on
installing prebuilt package on
macros
in interactive workflow
strings as
magnet
make distclean command
make install command
Mandelbrot set, coloring
margins, 2nd, 3rd
margins keyword
markup
Marquardt-Levenberg method
math
built-in functions, 2nd
complex numbers
curve fitting
background
example
fit command
practical advice
expressions
mathematical expressions
mathematically undefined values
nan (not-a-number)
non-Cartesian coordinates
cylindrical and spherical coordinates
polar coordinates
overview
parametric plots
probability plots
user-defined variables and functions
vector fields
plane vector fields with plot
three-dimensional vectors with splot
matrix format
matrix keyword
maxcols keyword
MAXITR
maxrows keyword
mcbtics option
mcsplines keyword
median
merit function
metadata, 2nd
minimal context for data
mirror keyword
missing values
model keyword
monitoring and control charts
cusum plots
identifying outliers
making data comparable
monitoring live data stream, continuously
using drivers to monitor arbitrary data sources
using gnuplot to monitor files
mono option, 2nd
Moreland, Kenneth
MOUSE_ prefix, for internal variables
MOUSE_ALT variable
MOUSE_BUTTON variable
MOUSE_CHAR variable
MOUSE_CTRL variable
MOUSE_KEY variable, 2nd
MOUSE_KEY_WINDOW variable
MOUSE_SHIFT variable
MOUSE_X variable, 2nd
MOUSE_X2 variable, 2nd
MOUSE_Y variable, 2nd
MOUSE_Y2 variable, 2nd
mousing
adjusting viewing angle
capturing mouse events
placing arrows with mouse
placing labels with mouse.
See also hotkeys.
multiple axes
linking
plotting with two coordinate systems
terminology
multiple data sets per file
selecting data sets by name
selecting data sets by position
multiple lines, records spanning
multiple steps
multiplication (*) operator
multiplot
accommodating marginal labels with margins and spacing
graphs within graphs
layout options and set multiplot command
regular arrays of graphs with layout
using multiplot mode
multiplot layout
multiplot mode, 2nd
multivariate data sets
distribution by level
distribution of values by attribute
overview
parallel-coordinates plot
scatter-plot matrix
multivariate visualization
arrows
labels
point size
shapes
Murrell, Paul
n lines
name keyword
name option
name, accessing columns by
NaN (not a number), 2nd
ne operator
net inflow function
newhistogram command
NEWS file
NEWTON_
Newton’s method, 2nd
Nimbus Sans L
NNN control character
NNNNNN control character
noautoscale keyword
nodes, defining palettes through
noenhanced keyword
nomirror
non-Cartesian coordinates
cylindrical coordinates
polar coordinates
spherical coordinates
nonlinear least-square fits
nonuniform matrix format
nooffset keyword
nooutput keyword
noraise option
noratio option
norm(x) function
normalize data
nosquare option
notitle option
NTSC luminance
number formats
Number theory
numbers, loops over
<object> tag
off keyword
offset argument
offset command, 2nd
offset keyword, 2nd
onload attribute
opaque keyword
open() function
organizational issues
input data files
lifecycle of graphs
output files
outliers, 2nd
output formats.
See terminals and output formats.
output setting
-p command-line option
PageDown system key block
PAGER variable
PageUp system key block
palette keyword, 2nd
palettes, 2nd
color models and components
colorbox
colored surface plots with pm3d
appearance options for
elevation and color
creating
defining through nodes
defining using functions
displaying
examples of
for segregation tasks
four industrial-strength palettes
geo palettes
grayscale
standard rainbow
three simple workhorses
tree rings
exporting
further reading about
interactive palette explorer example
mapping plot range to
logarithmic scaling of colorbox
outliers
querying palette definition
saving
using
parallel coordinates, 2nd, 3rd
highlighting subset of records
improving appearance
parameters, passing to scripts
parametric mode
parametric plots
pattern keyword
pause -1 command
pause command, 2nd
pause mouse command
pdf keyword
PDF, generating with cairo-based terminals
pdfcairo terminal, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
pdflatex
Perl, calling gnuplot from
--persist command-line option
persist option
phase transition
pie charts
pipe, writing to
Plis, A. I.
plot ... smooth cumul command
plot command, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th
plot command
plot command
plot command
plot command
data transformations
logarithmic plots
plotting data
plotting functions
smooth interpolation and approximation
deduping repeated entries
interpolation curves
point distributions.
See math.
plot option
plot sin(x) command
plot styles, box
plot... smooth kdens command
plots
abbreviations and defaults
box
invoking gnuplot and first plots
plotting data from file
ranges
pm3d
colored surface plots with
appearance options for
elevation and color
using false-color plots with
png bitmap terminal
PNG, generating with cairo-based terminals
pngcairo terminal, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
point distributions, 2nd
cumulative distribution functions, 2nd
jitter plots and histograms
kernel density estimates, 2nd
summary statistics and box plots
pointinterval (pi) property
pointinterval keyword
pointintervalbox feature, 2nd
points
false-color plots using
styles for
types and shapes
points option
points style
pointsize keyword
pointsize variable
pointtype (pt) keyword, 2nd
polar coordinates
polar option
polar variable
polishing
Popen facility
position, accessing columns by
PostScript file
postscript terminal, 2nd
power-law behavior
--prefix=PREFIX control
presentation graphics, 2nd
Primer of Analytic Number Theory, A
print command
probability plots
pseudocolumns, 2nd
pseudofiles, 2nd
generating data
heredocs
reading data from standard input
reading data from subprocess
writing to a pipe
Python, calling gnuplot from
q default hotkey binding
qt terminal, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
qt4 value
qt5 value
querying palette definition
question mark (?) character
quiet option, 2nd
quit command
r default hotkey binding
radius
rainbow, standard
ramp color
rand(0) function
rand(x) function, 2nd
range keyword
ranked data
ratio option
README file
real(x) function
recalling commands
recursive
redrawing graphs
refresh command
refresh option
relationships, representation of
highlighting trends
scatter plots
release and development versions
release packages
RELEASE_NOTES file
relief map
replot command, 2nd, 3rd
replot option
reset bind command, 2nd
reset command, 2nd, 3rd
reset errors command
reset session command, 2nd
restoring, session defaults
Return main key block
return statement
reverse keyword
RGB (red-green-blue), 2nd
rgb keyword
Right arrow key
right keyword
rmargin keyword
Rogowitz, Bernice
rotate command
rotate parallel directive
round line end
rounded control
rowsfirst keyword
rowstacked style
rug plots
s(n) function
samplen keyword
sampling rate for functions
saturate operator
saturation
save command, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
saving palettes
sbezier keyword
scalable graphics for web
canvas terminal
svg terminal
scale keyword, 2nd
scale parameter
scaling law
scanf() functions, 2nd
scansautomatic directive
scansbackward directive
scansforward directive
scatter plots
graph
splines
scatter-plot matrix, 2nd
scientific notation
screen keyword
screen system
screen.
See canvas.
<script> tag
scripting
batch processing
calling gnuplot from other programs
from Perl
from Python
helpful hints
command files
export script example
scripts as subroutines
continuously monitoring live data stream
using drivers to monitor arbitrary data sources
using gnuplot to monitor files
loops and conditionals
iterating over files
making graph paper
Newton’s method
Taylor series
scriptlets, extending command set using
segregation tasks, palettes for
self-contained files
self-explanatory files
semantics
semi-log plots
semicolon (;)
sensible defaults feature
separate symbols
separation keyword
serial box-and-whisker plots
appearance options for
example of array of
session defaults, restoring
set _range command, 2nd
set _tic add command
set _tics command
set _tics format command
set angle command
set arrow command
set arrow facility command
set arrow style command, 2nd
set autoscale command
set bars command, 2nd
set border command
set boxwidth command, 2nd
set cblabel command
set cbrange command
set cbrange option
set clip command
set clip points command
set cntrlabel command
set cntrlabel format command
set cntrlabel onecolor command
set cntrlabel parameter command
set cntrlparam command
set cntrparam command
set colorbox command
set colorsequence classic command
set colorsequence facility
set command, 2nd, 3rd
set contour command
set contour option
set dashtype command
set datafile separator command
set dgrid3d facility, 2nd
set dummy command
set fit command, 2nd
set fit covariancevariables command
set fit errorscaling command
set fit errorvariables command
set fit limit command
set fit limit_abs command
set fit logfile command
set fit maxiter command
set fit prescale command
set fit script command
set fit start_lambda command
set format command
set grid polar command
set hidden3d command
set history quiet command
set isosamples command, 2nd, 3rd
set key command
set key noautotitle command
set label command
set label style command
set linetype command
set linetype cycle facility
set link command
set link facility
set link x2 command
set link y2 command
set loadpath command
set logscale cb command, 2nd, 3rd
set logscale y command
set macro command
set mapping facility, 2nd
set margin command
set margins command
set mouse command, 2nd
set multiplot command, 2nd, 3rd
set multiplot layout command, 2nd, 3rd
set multiplot next command
set mxtics 5 command
set object command
set object style command
set offsets command
set origin command, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
set output command, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
set palette command, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
set palette cubehelix command
set palette defined (...) command
set palette file ... command, 2nd
set palette functions command
set palette rgbformulae command
set paxis command
set pm3d corners2color command
set pm3d hidden3d command
set pm3d mode command
set pointsize command, 2nd, 3rd
set polar facility
set print command, 2nd, 3rd
set raxis command
set rrange command
set samples command, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
set samples parameter command
set size command, 2nd
set size square command
set style boxplot command, 2nd, 3rd
set style circle setting command
set style command, 2nd, 3rd
set style fill command, 2nd, 3rd
set style histogram clustered command
set style histogram clustered gap 2 command
set style histogram columnstacked style command
set style histogram command
set style line command
set style rectangle command
set style textbox command
set surface command
set table command, 2nd
set terminal ... close command
set terminal ... size... command
set terminal command, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
set terminal pop command
set terminal push command
set termoption command, 2nd
set timefmt command, 2nd
set title command, 2nd
set urange command
set view command
set view equal xy command
set view equal xyz command
set view map command
set vrange command
set x2tic add ( ... ) command
set xdata command
set xdata time command, 2nd
set xdtics command
set xlabel command, 2nd
set xmtics command
set xrange command
set xrange plot range command
set xtic command
set xtics command
set xtics format command
set xtics pi command
set xyplane command
set xzero axis command
set ylabel command, 2nd
set yrange plot range command
set ytics command, 2nd
set zeroaccess command
set zlabel command
set[...] command
setborder command
setup script
sgn(x) function
shell commands, invoking from gnuplot
SHELL variable
show all command
show bind command
show colornames command, 2nd
show command, 2nd
show functions command
show label command
show loadpath command
show palette command
show variables all command
show variables command
show version long command, 2nd
show version long pertinent command
show version pertinent command
sin(x) function
single blank lines
single plot
single-quoted strings
sinh(x) function
size directive
size option
size, of canvas
skip directive
smooth cnormal command
smooth cumul command
smooth cumulative feature
smooth directive, 2nd
smooth frequency function, 2nd, 3rd
smooth interpolation and approximation
deduping repeated entries
interpolation curves
Bézier approximations
spline interpolations
point distributions
cumulative distribution functions
kernel density estimates
smooth kdens command
smooth kdensity feature, 2nd
smooth sbezier command
smooth surfaces, dgrid3d facility
smooth unique command
smoothing
smoothing splines
source tree, layout of
space bar default hotkey binding
spacing directive
spacing keyword, 2nd
spacing value
special line types
special plots
box-and-whisker plots
appearance options
individual
semantics of
serial box-and-whisker plots
histograms
multiplot
graphs within graphs
layout options and set multiplot command
marginal labels with margins and spacing
regular arrays of graphs with layout
using multiplot mode
parallel coordinates
parallel-coordinates graphs
spectrum, features of
spherical coordinates
spline interpolations
splines
splines algorithm
splot command, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th
sprintf() function, 2nd
sqrt(x) function
square control
square line end
src/ file
stacked curves, changing
stacked histogram style
stacking order
standalone mode, 2nd
standalone option
standard data-file format
comments and header lines
selecting columns
standard rainbow
startup configurations and initialization
command-line flags
environment variables
startup and initialization files
StatLib Datasets Archive
stats command, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th
STATS_ prefix, for internal variables
steps style
Stopple, J.
strftime() function, 2nd
stringcolumn(i) function
strings
data files
executing with eval
in data files
loops over
quotes
string expressions in commands
string macros inside commands
string operations
strptime() function, 2nd
structure matrix format
structured data sets
multiple data sets per file
selecting data sets by name
selecting data sets by position
records spanning multiple lines
styles, 2nd
boxes
choosing inline using with keyword
customizing graph elements
inline customizations
line options
dots
filled styles
global
arrow styles
data and function styles
fill styles
line styles
other global styles
impulses
lines
linespoints style
multivariate visualization
arrows
labels
point size
shapes
points
reasons for using
steps
time-series styles
with error bars
stylesheets, 2nd
subprocess module
subprocess, reading data from
subroutines, scripts as
Newton’s method
passing parameters to scripts
simulating local variables
sum construct, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
summary statistics
surface plots
coordinate axes
base plane
borders plane
plotting data from a file using splot
grid format
matrix format
smooth surfaces
special options for
sampling frequency for plotting functions with splot
set hidden3d option
set surface option
splot command
view point
bird’s-eye view
unit length and aspect ratio
using mouse
using set view
svg terminal, 2nd, 3rd
sym(s) function
synopsis, 2nd
system() function
Tab main key block
tags, identifying decorations using
tail command
tail facility
tan(x) function
tanh(x) function
Taylor expansion
Taylor series
terminal abstraction
terminal facility, 2nd
terminal option
terminal pop pseudoterminal
terminal push pseudoterminal
terminal setting
terminals
terminals and output formats
capabilities and test command
enhanced text mode
font resolution
font selection
generating PNG and PDF with cairo-based terminals
interactive terminals
aqua terminal
common options
windows terminal
wxt and qt terminals
scalable graphics for web
canvas terminal
svg terminal
terminal abstraction
using gnuplot with LaTeX
generating graph using LaTex
including graph in document
using cairolatex terminal
workflow
changing default terminal properties
flushing buffers
push and pop pseudoterminals
scaling complete plot up or down
standard workflow
test command, 2nd
test palette command
text labels
axis labels
title label
textcolor (tc) keyword, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
textual output generation
title label
print command
reading and writing heredocs
set print command
set table command
with table style
tgif terminal
thermodynamics of phase transitions
three-dimensional vectors, with splot
tic marks, 2nd
appearance and placement
grid and zero axis
labels for
formatting
scientific notation and enhanced text mode
location and frequency of
adding and overriding individual tic marks
minor tic marks
overview
reading from file
tics keyword
ticslabels() function
tikz terminal, 2nd
time series, 2nd
date and time information
example
input
months and weekdays
output
styles for
working in time-series mode
Time Series Data Library
time-series plots
changing composition and stacked curves
differencing time series
double exponential smoothing
exponential smoothing
monitoring and control charts
cusum plots
identifying outliers
making data comparable
plotting Apache web server log
smoothing and differencing
time() function
timecolumn() function, 2nd, 3rd
times variable
title columnhead
title directive, 2nd, 3rd
title keyword, 2nd, 3rd
title label
title option, 2nd
title strings
tm_hour() function
tm_mday() function
tm_min() function
tm_mon() function
tm_sec() function
tm_wday() function
tm_yday() function
tm_year() function
tmargin keyword
to keyword
top keyword
trailing average
trange plot range
transformation
transformations, data
transparency
transparent keyword
Treinish, Lloyd
trianglepattern keyword
-u command, 2nd
u default hotkey binding
u variable
UCI Machine Learning Repository, 2nd, 3rd
undefine command
undefined command
undefined values
underscore (_) symbol, 2nd
Unicode
unique keyword
Unix, building gnuplot from source on
unset arrow command
unset colorbox command
unset command
unset label command
unset multiplot command
unset raxis command
unset xdtics command
unset xmtics command
Up arrow key
update command
upset session
upwards keyword
user keyword
user-defined variables and functions
using directive, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
UTF-8
-V command-line option
v variable
valid() function
value() function
values, missing
variable keyword, 2nd
variables
environment variables
in interactive workflow
internal
local, simulating
set by fit command
user-defined
vector fields
plane vector fields with plot
three-dimensional vectors with splot
verbose
--version command-line option
vertical keyword
via clause
view point
bird’s-eye view
unit length and aspect ratio
using mouse
using set view
viewers, external
visual perception
banking
judging lengths and distances
plot ranges and whether to always include zero
Visualizing Data
w pm3d style
Wainer, Howard, 2nd, 3rd
weighted cubic splines
weighted least-squares merit function
West, G. B.
while loop, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
whiskerbars keyword
Wierstorf, Hagen
Williams, Thomas (gnuplot author)
Windows
building gnuplot from source on
installing prebuilt package on
windows terminal
with arrows style
with boxes style
with boxplot style, 2nd, 3rd
with boxxyerrorbars style
with candlesticks style
with circles style, 2nd, 3rd
with directive
with ellipses style
with histogram style
with image style
with keyword
with labels style, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
with lines style, 2nd, 3rd
with linespoints style, 2nd
with option
with points style, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
with rgbalpha style
with table style
with vectors style, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
with xyerrorbars style
--with-qt option
--with-qt=no option
--with-readline option
--with-readline=builtin option
--with-readline=DIR option
--with-readline=gnu option
--with-wx=DIR option
Witten, T. A.
word function, 2nd, 3rd
word() function
words() function, 2nd
workflow
changing default terminal properties
scaling complete plot up or down.
See interactive workflow.
wxt terminal, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
x variable, 2nd
X11 format
x11 terminal, 2nd
xmtics command
xrange option
xrange plot range
xtic() function, 2nd
xticlabels() function
xyplane option
y variable
yerrorlines style
yrange option
yrange plot range
ytic(1) function
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