Welcome to this group. You can post questions/comments/responses directly to this group. I will forward all questions/comments sent to me (steve@...) to...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 5:08 pm
howdy I have a data file that looks like: hosta 2 hosta 3 hosta 1 hosta 6 and I want to do a bar graph where: hosta = 3 in other words, average all the values...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 5:09 pm
... One way to do this would be to use #proc rangebar with statsonly: yes and meanmode: yes This will set a variable called RANGEBARMEAN, which you can then...
Jason, the bug you reported should be fixed in ploticus 1.41, released today. -Steve ... Stephen C. Grubb scg@... Scientific Software Engineer, The...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:21 pm
Why not release Ploticus under the GPL? I understand your want to stop potential forking, but your current license seems rather opposed to the open source...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:21 pm
... As of today, ploticus is covered under GPL. Thanks for the suggestion. -Steve Stephen C. Grubb scg@... Scientific Software Engineer, The Jackson...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:23 pm
Steve: I'm absolutely loving Ploticus... it is pretty easy to pick up and quite versitile, and it puts out nice looking graphs. I am having one problem,...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:24 pm
Ken, If the data for series 1 and series 2 are separate fields in the same dataset, you can use (eg if series are in fields 3 and 5): #proc areadef yautorange:...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:25 pm
Steve, there was a bug in Ploticus 1.40 with ticks not being drawn at bars when truncating was not switched on. Please find a patch attached below. Regards, ...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:26 pm
This is incorporated in 1.41 -Steve Stephen C. Grubb scg@... Scientific Software Engineer, The Jackson Laboratory 600 Main Street Bar Harbor, Maine...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:27 pm
Hello Steve ! I'm working towards the end of a proof-of-concept project incorporating Ploticus 1.40. What happens is that I have set up a perl script to act as...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:28 pm
... Thanks Peter, This was suggested awhile back by Tim Churches (tchur@...) .. here is that dialogue. Tim> One advantage Grace has is the ability ... ...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:29 pm
Dear Stephen, This e-mail is to express my enthousiasm about ploticus. As a matter of fact I came to your webpage quite exidentally, I was "lured" there by...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:30 pm
... Awesome! That is very cool. My only reservations before about using ploticus was it being non-GPL. (I used it anyways... Gnuplot can't compare for plotting...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:31 pm
There are some limitations with the command line. The command line has a length limitation of the arguments passed. we were trying to pass on a list of numbers...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 22, 2001 6:32 pm
... The command line args are placed into ploticus variables, which have a documented max content length of 120 or so. So that's the bottleneck. Variables...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 25, 2001 3:32 pm
Hi, Steve First I'd like to thank you for developing such a powerful graphing package that generates a lot of beautiful plots. I've been using version 1.40...
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stevegrubb1@...
Jun 26, 2001 11:46 am
Apparently the sgpr.net web site hosting service is having problems.. www.sgpr.net has been unavailable all day yesterday (6/25) and now again today (6/26). ...
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stevegrubb1@...
Jun 26, 2001 6:25 pm
Please be aware of a doc problem I just noticed. In a number of places in ploticus, double at-signs (@@) are used. The are used in 'select' attributes, proc...
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MichaelKatsilis@...
Jun 27, 2001 8:24 am
Hi, I am having problems plotting the data file below (see transfer.dat below). The x-axis contains dates (ie. 20/06/2001) and the y-axis times (ie. 01:30)....
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stevegrubb1@...
Jun 27, 2001 3:02 pm
A bug was reported where proc getdata was being used to read fairly long data records, and 'filter' was being used to process them. The user was getting...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 27, 2001 4:33 pm
... Jason, Suppose you want a fixed size of 4" wide by 3" high. You should be able to get this always, using pl ... -crop 0,0,4,3 This will crop the result...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 27, 2001 5:01 pm
Michael, I ran your example and it seems to be working correctly to me. You are supplying data for 3 consecutive days, and drawing 3 curves using 3 data...
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MichaelKatsilis@...
Jun 28, 2001 11:25 am
Hi Steve, Sorry about that, forgot to include more detail. The problem is that the data contains plots at 22:13, 23:17 and 23:24, but these times are not...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 28, 2001 11:54 am
Michael, OK, now I see what you are asking. You are using #proc curvefit to generate the curves. #proc curvefit fits a smooth curve to the points. You probably...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 28, 2001 11:58 am
... The conversion factor is 100 pixels per inch, so that would be 3.2" x 2" -Steve Stephen C. Grubb scg@... Scientific Software Engineer, The Jackson...
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Stephen C. Grubb
scg@...
Jun 28, 2001 11:59 am
27 Jun 2001 Hey Stephen! Just wanted to drop you a line to say thanks for the software. Ploticus was a very quick, easy and robust solution for our web page. I...
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MichaelKatsilis@...
Jun 28, 2001 12:58 pm
Steve, Yes, that's sounds right. Thank you very much, I appreciate it. Regards, Michael...
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Peter Hanecak
hanecak@...
Jul 3, 2001 9:15 am
Hello, RPM packages of ploticus 1.41 (plus older versions) are available at: http://www.megaloman.com/~hany/RPM/ploticus.html It's the same link as mentioned...
