On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Marvin Doyley <marvin...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi there, > > > > I am planning to use gnuplot to plot some data that I have in org table. > > Everything is set-up correctly and gnuplot is installed my mac. > > Unfortunately, when I run the following org file I get a zero byte file -- > > everything seems to run ok, except nothing is written to the output file. > > Does anybody know what I am doing wrong ? > >
<snip> > > so if your gnuplot is like my gnuplot then "eps" is not a known terminal > type. I'd suggest trying the following. Also, notice that I changed > your "plot" line -- histograms are not intuitive in gnuplot. > <snip> > > #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=gnuplot-testing :file output.eps :exports both > set term postscript > set title "test" > set auto x > set style data histogram > set style fill solid border -1 > set boxwidth 0.9 > plot data using 2:xtic(1) > #+end_src > Shameless plug: this and more is available at the orgmode gnuplot babel documentation on Worg. Check it out if you're interested. --- Top level: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-gnuplot.html --- This in particular (generating eps files): http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-gnuplot.html#sec-7_2
