Re: Generating boxplot (candlestick) diagrams (babel or org-plot)

[Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>]

* Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> wrote:
> Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
> I'm using gnuplot 4.5 patchlevel 0 which is probably where this
> difference comes in.  As I use gnuplot all the time, I find it
> worthwhile to track the development head for nice new features such as
> this and beautiful pdf plots through pgf/tikz.

Glad to know that gnuplot is under active development!

But CSV? ... geesh seriously? ...

>> And now I also understand the problem I had: I thought that gnuplot
>> is able to derive min/max whisker min/max from the data columns by
>> itself.
>>
>> Well - this is bad news to me since I do not see any reasonable way
>> to use gnuplot for that purpose. I might need to learn R or
>> Python/matplotlib :-(
>
> Judging from the help output for boxplot it looks as though the boxplot
> option *will* perform these calculations for you, if you are willing to
> move to version 4.5 or later.  The only downside of using new features
> in gnuplot is that it is noticeably harder to find help through google.

Thanks for giving me OT gnuplot support!

-- 
Karl Voit