[ubuntu-uk] process control charts! Chart software

[javadayaz]

that is quite cool. but i couldnt see anything for spc's!

2009/3/2 James Thomas <selinium at googlemail.com>

> You could always give the Google Charts API a go...
> Easy and very clever...
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
>
> :)
>
> 2009/2/27 Thomas Ibbotson <thomas.ibbotson at gmail.com>
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>> javadayaz wrote:
>> > looks like it is command line based. so probably not for me then ! :(
>> >
>>
>> Don't be so scared of the command line, it's not so hard to learn to use
>> gnuplot. If you didn't know how to use a GUI application you would have
>> to spend some time learning, the only difference being with a GUI you
>> can guess which buttons to press.
>>
>> So to get you started:
>> To start gnuplot, just type "gnuplot" at a terminal, then you'll get a
>> prompt looking something like this:
>>
>>        G N U P L O T
>>        Version 4.2 patchlevel 3
>>        last modified Mar 2008
>>        System: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic
>>
>>        Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2008
>>        Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
>>
>>        Type `help` to access the on-line reference manual.
>>        The gnuplot FAQ is available from http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/
>>
>>        Send bug reports and suggestions to
>> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot>
>>
>>
>> Terminal type set to 'wxt'
>> gnuplot>
>>
>> To plot a graph of sin(x) here's what you'd type:
>> gnuplot> plot sin(x)
>>
>> and a graph of sin(x) should pop up in a window.
>>
>> If you have a file with data in it, as long as they are in columns
>> gnuplot can plot them easily for you:
>> gnuplot>plot "data.txt"
>>
>> where data.txt looks something like:
>> 1  1
>> 2  4
>> 3  9
>> 4  16
>> 5  25
>>
>> If you have more than one column, you use the "using" modifier i.e.
>> gnuplot> plot "data.txt" using 1:3
>>
>> which tells gnuplot to plot columns 1 and 3 from the data.txt file.
>>
>> The other important thing to know is how to write something to a file.
>> First you need to decide what type of file you would like to output,
>> such as "png" or "postscript". So here are the commands you would type:
>>
>> gnuplot> set terminal png
>> [This sets the file to be of type "png"]
>> gnuplot> set output "mygraph.png"
>> [This opens the file for writing to it]
>> gnuplot> plot "data.txt"
>> [This plots the graph and puts the output into the file]
>> gnuplot> unset output
>> [This closes the file]
>>
>> This is all just straight off the top of my head, so it's really not
>> hard to use once you've played with it a bit. There's plenty of good
>> information on the web for using gnuplot, but if you find yourself
>> stuck, don't hesitate to ask. As you might have noticed I quite like
>> gnuplot and would be willing to help...
>>
>> Of course you can always type "help" at the gnuplot command line for
>> some interactive help.
>>
>> gnuplot> help
>>
>> Tom
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