I'm trying to plot a histogram for the following data:
<text>,<percentage>
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"Statement A",50%
"Statement B",20%
"Statement C",30%
I used the set datafile separator "," to obtain the corresponding columns. The plot should have percentage on the X-axis and the statements on the Y-axis (full character string). So each histogram is horizontal.
How can I do this in gnuplot? Or is there other tools for plotting good vector images?
The gnuplot histogram and boxes plotting styles are for vertical boxes. To get horizontal boxes, you can use boxxyerrorbars.
For the strings as y-labels, I use yticlabels and place the boxes at the y-values 0, 1 and 2 (according to the row in the data file, which is accessed with $0).
I let gnuplot treat the second column as numerical value, which strips the % off. It is added later in the formatting of the xtics:
set datafile separator ','
set format x '%g%%'
set style fill solid
plot 'data.txt' using ($2*0.5):0:($2*0.5):(0.4):yticlabels(1) with boxxyerrorbars t ''
The result with version 4.6.4 is:
@Christoph Thank you. Your answer helped me.
@Slayer Regarding your question to add labels using gnuplot v5.2 patchlevel 6 and using @Christoph's provided sample.
Sample Code:
# set the data file delimiter
set datafile separator ','
# set the x-axiz labels to show percentage
set format x '%g%%'
# set the x-axis min and max range
set xrange [ 0 : 100]
# set the style of the bars
set style fill solid
# set the textbox style with a blue line colour
set style textbox opaque border lc "blue"
# plot the data graph and place the labels on the bars
plot 'plotv.txt' using ($2*0.5):0:($2*0.5):(0.3):yticlabels(1) with boxxyerrorbars t '', \
'' using 2:0:2 with labels center boxed notitle column
Sample Data Provided:(plotv.txt)
<text>,<percentage>
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"Statement A",50%
"Statement B",20%
"Statement C",30%
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