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Gnuplotting multi-plot data without a textfile

I've just read Gnuplotting data without a textfile, and I want to do the same thing, but with a "multi-plot". I currently have:

plot 'data.csv' using 1:3:2:6:5:7:xticlabels(8) with candlesticks title 'Quartiles' whiskerbars, \
  ''         using 1:4:4:4:4:4 with candlesticks lt -1 notitle

and I want to inline the data in data.csv.

Solution

  • This is easy enough:

    set multiplot layout 1,2
plot '-' u 1:2
1 2
2 3
3 4  
e

plot '-' u 1:2
2 3
3 4
4 5
e

    Note that inline data is not really particularly happy with the '' pseudofile. You would actually need to include your entire data again at that point. So, If you want 2 traces on the same subplot of a multiplot:

    set multiplot layout 1,2
plot '-' u 1:2, '-' u 1:3
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
e
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
e

plot '-' u 1:($2*$3)
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
e

    This ends up being the same thing as if you had a datafile data.txt:

    #data.txt
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

    and plotted it with this (much simpler) script:

    set multiplot layout 1,2
plot 'data.txt' u 1:2, '' u 1:3
plot '' u 1:($2*$3)