sfeam wrote:
> Reginald Beardsley wrote:
>
>
>>Is gnuplot able to plot date data as follows intelligently? Examining
>>finance.dem suggests that it can't read dates for the X axis, but can
>>label it w/ dates. The help function is completely opaque.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Reg
>>
>>
>>#Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume,Adj Close
>>2008-10-06,10322.52,10322.52,9503.10,9955.50,7956020000,9955.50
>>2008-10-03,10483.96,10844.69,10261.75,10325.38,6716120000,10325.38
>>2008-10-02,10825.54,10843.10,10368.08,10482.85,6285640000,10482.85
>>2008-10-01,10847.40,11022.06,10495.99,10831.07,5782130000,10831.07
>
>
> set xdata time
> set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d"
> set datafile separator ","
>
> plot 'data' using 1:2:4:3:5 with candlesticks
>
> If you don't like the default x-axis label format, you can change
> that too:
>
> set format x"%Y-%m-%d"
> set xtics rotate by -45
Thanks. Works great, but I can't figure out how to control the xrange.
No permutation of the date seems to have the correct effect. [1980-1-1:]
results in 2000-1-1 as the left limit. I've tried lots of
permutations of date format w/ the same result.
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