Gnuplot will work, but not well.

Data file,
 

mon 1 10
tue 2 20
fri 5 15

saved in the file graph

gnuplot
plot "graph" using 2:3 with lines

I suspect you can do more, but .....


Derek.


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Jim Cheetham wrote:

> I wanted to draw a graph last night ...
> Columns of numbers recorded on various dates, with some dates missing.
> 
> OOo Calc didn't understand the date series - it thought each data point was 
> equally "next to" the others, and didn't interpolate the missing days.
> 
> e.g.
> Mon           10
> Tue           20
> Fri           15
> 
> should result in an axis with 5 points on it - M  T  W  T  F
> and what I got was an axis with 3 points on it - M T F
> (only three data points in each case)
> 
> Anyone got a suggestion for a tool that handles this case? *cough* MS Excel 
> gets it 'right' ...
> 
> -jim
> 
> 
> 

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