Contributing 

What is gnuplot Splot?

Leia Doyle

What is gnuplot Splot?

splot is the command for drawing 3-d plots (well, actually projections on a 2-d surface, but you knew that). It can create a plot from functions or a data file in a manner very similar to the plot command.

What is gnuplot key?

The set key enables a key (or legend) describing plots on a plot. The contents of the key, i.e., the names given to each plotted data set and function and samples of the lines and/or symbols used to represent them, are determined by the title and with options of the {s}plot command.

What is gnuplot terminal?

gnuplot is a command-driven interactive function plotting program. It can be used to plot functions and data points in both two- and three- dimensional plots in many different formats. It is designed primarily for the visual display of scientific data.

How do I save a plot in gnuplot?

The two modes for running gnuplot are interactive and from file command line, type commands, and watch output appear; you terminate an interactive session with quit . If you want to save the results of an interactive session, do save “name. plt” . This file can be edited, and loaded with load “name.

How do you write Greek letters in gnuplot?

This can be done in several ways:

  1. When setting the terminal set terminal enhanced.
  2. After setting the terminal with set termoption enhanced.
  3. Explicitely for a single label set xlabel ‘{/Symbol a}’ enhanced.

How do I run gnuplot on Windows?

Installing Gnuplot on Windows

  1. Choose the download for gnuplot 4.2.
  2. Download the file gp424win32.zip.
  3. Create a folder named gnuplot directly under C:\
  4. extract all of the zip file into that folder.
  5. Use Explorer to go to C:\gnuplot, and find the bin subdirectory.
  6. Create a desktop shortcut to this executable.

What are possible output formats of gnuplot?

gnuplot can produce output directly on screen, or in many formats of graphics files, including Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), JPEG and many others.

How do I know gnuplot version?

Check to see if you already have Gnuplot, by typing ‘which gnuplot’ in a shell window. If Gnuplot is installed, you need to make sure that it is version 4.0 or newer (‘gnuplot –version’). If you need to install Gnuplot, rpms are available from rpmfind.net and gzipped tar files from SourceForge.