Mixing
why is my gnuplot result (png from csv) not what I expected?
(gnuplot 5.2.5, Centos 7) I've tried about 8 google examples and my result is still not even close.
Here is my data:
Timestamp,1016.qmgr,1893.sshd,1.systemd,2017.sshd
2018-11-21.04:23:03,0.1,1.0,4.0,2.0
2018-11-21.04:23:04,0.2,2.0,5.0,4.0
2018-11-21.04:23:05,0.3,3.0,6.0,8.0
Here are my plot settings:
set datafile separator ","
set title "CPU % Usage per task over time"
set ylabel '% CPU'
set xlabel 'Time'
set grid
set term png
set output '10.png'
set key autotitle columnheader
plot for [i=2:5] 'Results.10/CPU.csv' using 1:i'
Basically, I was expecting something like this:
But I got something like this:
Any ideas what to set in the plot parameters file?
plot graph gnuplot
edited Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
Ulrich Eckhardt
12.7k11737
asked Nov 21 '18 at 4:48
Kiichiro MatsushitaKiichiro Matsushita
163
add a comment |
(gnuplot 5.2.5, Centos 7) I've tried about 8 google examples and my result is still not even close.
Here is my data:
Timestamp,1016.qmgr,1893.sshd,1.systemd,2017.sshd
2018-11-21.04:23:03,0.1,1.0,4.0,2.0
2018-11-21.04:23:04,0.2,2.0,5.0,4.0
2018-11-21.04:23:05,0.3,3.0,6.0,8.0
Here are my plot settings:
set datafile separator ","
set title "CPU % Usage per task over time"
set ylabel '% CPU'
set xlabel 'Time'
set grid
set term png
set output '10.png'
set key autotitle columnheader
plot for [i=2:5] 'Results.10/CPU.csv' using 1:i'
Basically, I was expecting something like this:
But I got something like this:
Any ideas what to set in the plot parameters file?
plot graph gnuplot
edited Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
Ulrich Eckhardt
12.7k11737
asked Nov 21 '18 at 4:48
Kiichiro MatsushitaKiichiro Matsushita
163
1
Please read the comments of tags before applying them, the "linux" tag was wrong here.
– Ulrich Eckhardt
Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
add a comment |
(gnuplot 5.2.5, Centos 7) I've tried about 8 google examples and my result is still not even close.
Here is my data:
Timestamp,1016.qmgr,1893.sshd,1.systemd,2017.sshd
2018-11-21.04:23:03,0.1,1.0,4.0,2.0
2018-11-21.04:23:04,0.2,2.0,5.0,4.0
2018-11-21.04:23:05,0.3,3.0,6.0,8.0
Here are my plot settings:
set datafile separator ","
set title "CPU % Usage per task over time"
set ylabel '% CPU'
set xlabel 'Time'
set grid
set term png
set output '10.png'
set key autotitle columnheader
plot for [i=2:5] 'Results.10/CPU.csv' using 1:i'
Basically, I was expecting something like this:
But I got something like this:
Any ideas what to set in the plot parameters file?
plot graph gnuplot
edited Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
Ulrich Eckhardt
12.7k11737
asked Nov 21 '18 at 4:48
Kiichiro MatsushitaKiichiro Matsushita
163
(gnuplot 5.2.5, Centos 7) I've tried about 8 google examples and my result is still not even close.
Here is my data:
Timestamp,1016.qmgr,1893.sshd,1.systemd,2017.sshd
2018-11-21.04:23:03,0.1,1.0,4.0,2.0
2018-11-21.04:23:04,0.2,2.0,5.0,4.0
2018-11-21.04:23:05,0.3,3.0,6.0,8.0
Here are my plot settings:
set datafile separator ","
set title "CPU % Usage per task over time"
set ylabel '% CPU'
set xlabel 'Time'
set grid
set term png
set output '10.png'
set key autotitle columnheader
plot for [i=2:5] 'Results.10/CPU.csv' using 1:i'
Basically, I was expecting something like this:
But I got something like this:
Any ideas what to set in the plot parameters file?
plot graph gnuplot
plot graph gnuplot
edited Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
Ulrich Eckhardt
12.7k11737
asked Nov 21 '18 at 4:48
Kiichiro MatsushitaKiichiro Matsushita
163
edited Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
Ulrich Eckhardt
12.7k11737
asked Nov 21 '18 at 4:48
Kiichiro MatsushitaKiichiro Matsushita
163
edited Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
Ulrich Eckhardt
12.7k11737
edited Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
Ulrich Eckhardt
12.7k11737
edited Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
Ulrich Eckhardt
12.7k11737
12.7k11737
asked Nov 21 '18 at 4:48
Kiichiro MatsushitaKiichiro Matsushita
163
asked Nov 21 '18 at 4:48
Kiichiro MatsushitaKiichiro Matsushita
163
asked Nov 21 '18 at 4:48
Kiichiro MatsushitaKiichiro Matsushita
163
163
1
Please read the comments of tags before applying them, the "linux" tag was wrong here.
– Ulrich Eckhardt
Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
add a comment |
1
Please read the comments of tags before applying them, the "linux" tag was wrong here.
– Ulrich Eckhardt
Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
1
1
Please read the comments of tags before applying them, the "linux" tag was wrong here.
– Ulrich Eckhardt
Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
Please read the comments of tags before applying them, the "linux" tag was wrong here.
– Ulrich Eckhardt
Nov 21 '18 at 7:23
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
You need to tell gnuplot that the first column contains time data, and also what the format is:
set xdata time
set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S"
There are other ways to do it, but that is the simplest way to deal with time specified as a string.
[amended answer]
If you just want the content of the first column printed along x as an opaque text string, the command is:
plot for [i=2:5] 'Results.10/CPU.csv' using 0:i:xticlabels(1)
Because these strings are very long, you probably will need to rotate the labels so they do not overlap:
set xtics rotate by -45
answered Nov 21 '18 at 5:35
EthanEthan
1,796267
why? I mean, it's a series of values. Could be A, B, C...
– DraxDomax
Nov 21 '18 at 9:46
I may have misunderstood what you want. The example plot you showed has time values along the x axis so I thought that is what you wanted. If you just want the content of column 1 printed as an opaque text blob, the command is different. See amended answer
– Ethan
Nov 21 '18 at 18:07
actually that somehow helped. I am still not sure how, as the series that represents the x values is nicely sorted anyway. I had other problems with that plot properties file but I seem to be on top of it now. Thanks!
– DraxDomax
Nov 22 '18 at 22:22
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ifUsing("editor", function () {
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function () {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function () {
StackExchange.snippets.init();
});
});
}, "code-snippets");
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "1"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f53405419%2fwhy-is-my-gnuplot-result-png-from-csv-not-what-i-expected%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
You need to tell gnuplot that the first column contains time data, and also what the format is:
set xdata time
set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S"
There are other ways to do it, but that is the simplest way to deal with time specified as a string.
[amended answer]
If you just want the content of the first column printed along x as an opaque text string, the command is:
plot for [i=2:5] 'Results.10/CPU.csv' using 0:i:xticlabels(1)
Because these strings are very long, you probably will need to rotate the labels so they do not overlap:
set xtics rotate by -45
answered Nov 21 '18 at 5:35
EthanEthan
1,796267
why? I mean, it's a series of values. Could be A, B, C...
– DraxDomax
Nov 21 '18 at 9:46
I may have misunderstood what you want. The example plot you showed has time values along the x axis so I thought that is what you wanted. If you just want the content of column 1 printed as an opaque text blob, the command is different. See amended answer
– Ethan
Nov 21 '18 at 18:07
actually that somehow helped. I am still not sure how, as the series that represents the x values is nicely sorted anyway. I had other problems with that plot properties file but I seem to be on top of it now. Thanks!
– DraxDomax
Nov 22 '18 at 22:22
add a comment |
You need to tell gnuplot that the first column contains time data, and also what the format is:
set xdata time
set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S"
There are other ways to do it, but that is the simplest way to deal with time specified as a string.
[amended answer]
If you just want the content of the first column printed along x as an opaque text string, the command is:
plot for [i=2:5] 'Results.10/CPU.csv' using 0:i:xticlabels(1)
Because these strings are very long, you probably will need to rotate the labels so they do not overlap:
set xtics rotate by -45
answered Nov 21 '18 at 5:35
EthanEthan
1,796267
why? I mean, it's a series of values. Could be A, B, C...
– DraxDomax
Nov 21 '18 at 9:46
I may have misunderstood what you want. The example plot you showed has time values along the x axis so I thought that is what you wanted. If you just want the content of column 1 printed as an opaque text blob, the command is different. See amended answer
– Ethan
Nov 21 '18 at 18:07
actually that somehow helped. I am still not sure how, as the series that represents the x values is nicely sorted anyway. I had other problems with that plot properties file but I seem to be on top of it now. Thanks!
– DraxDomax
Nov 22 '18 at 22:22
add a comment |
You need to tell gnuplot that the first column contains time data, and also what the format is:
set xdata time
set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S"
There are other ways to do it, but that is the simplest way to deal with time specified as a string.
[amended answer]
If you just want the content of the first column printed along x as an opaque text string, the command is:
plot for [i=2:5] 'Results.10/CPU.csv' using 0:i:xticlabels(1)
Because these strings are very long, you probably will need to rotate the labels so they do not overlap:
set xtics rotate by -45
answered Nov 21 '18 at 5:35
EthanEthan
1,796267
You need to tell gnuplot that the first column contains time data, and also what the format is:
set xdata time
set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S"
There are other ways to do it, but that is the simplest way to deal with time specified as a string.
[amended answer]
If you just want the content of the first column printed along x as an opaque text string, the command is:
plot for [i=2:5] 'Results.10/CPU.csv' using 0:i:xticlabels(1)
Because these strings are very long, you probably will need to rotate the labels so they do not overlap:
set xtics rotate by -45
answered Nov 21 '18 at 5:35
EthanEthan
1,796267
edited Nov 21 '18 at 18:21
answered Nov 21 '18 at 5:35
EthanEthan
1,796267
answered Nov 21 '18 at 5:35
EthanEthan
1,796267
answered Nov 21 '18 at 5:35
EthanEthan
1,796267
1,796267
why? I mean, it's a series of values. Could be A, B, C...
– DraxDomax
Nov 21 '18 at 9:46
I may have misunderstood what you want. The example plot you showed has time values along the x axis so I thought that is what you wanted. If you just want the content of column 1 printed as an opaque text blob, the command is different. See amended answer
– Ethan
Nov 21 '18 at 18:07
actually that somehow helped. I am still not sure how, as the series that represents the x values is nicely sorted anyway. I had other problems with that plot properties file but I seem to be on top of it now. Thanks!
– DraxDomax
Nov 22 '18 at 22:22
add a comment |
why? I mean, it's a series of values. Could be A, B, C...
– DraxDomax
Nov 21 '18 at 9:46
I may have misunderstood what you want. The example plot you showed has time values along the x axis so I thought that is what you wanted. If you just want the content of column 1 printed as an opaque text blob, the command is different. See amended answer
– Ethan
Nov 21 '18 at 18:07
actually that somehow helped. I am still not sure how, as the series that represents the x values is nicely sorted anyway. I had other problems with that plot properties file but I seem to be on top of it now. Thanks!
– DraxDomax
Nov 22 '18 at 22:22
why? I mean, it's a series of values. Could be A, B, C...
– DraxDomax
Nov 21 '18 at 9:46
why? I mean, it's a series of values. Could be A, B, C...
– DraxDomax
Nov 21 '18 at 9:46
I may have misunderstood what you want. The example plot you showed has time values along the x axis so I thought that is what you wanted. If you just want the content of column 1 printed as an opaque text blob, the command is different. See amended answer
– Ethan
Nov 21 '18 at 18:07
I may have misunderstood what you want. The example plot you showed has time values along the x axis so I thought that is what you wanted. If you just want the content of column 1 printed as an opaque text blob, the command is different. See amended answer
– Ethan
Nov 21 '18 at 18:07
actually that somehow helped. I am still not sure how, as the series that represents the x values is nicely sorted anyway. I had other problems with that plot properties file but I seem to be on top of it now. Thanks!
– DraxDomax
Nov 22 '18 at 22:22
actually that somehow helped. I am still not sure how, as the series that represents the x values is nicely sorted anyway. I had other problems with that plot properties file but I seem to be on top of it now. Thanks!
– DraxDomax
Nov 22 '18 at 22:22
add a comment |
Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f53405419%2fwhy-is-my-gnuplot-result-png-from-csv-not-what-i-expected%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
1
Please read the comments of tags before applying them, the "linux" tag was wrong here.
– Ulrich Eckhardt
Nov 21 '18 at 7:23