Re: [Veusz-discuss] line plot with text variable as x?
Thanks Sergey and Simon. I am liking the Veusz software more every day. Its
versatility is impressive.
I actually decided that my original plan to extend the x-axis "month" variable
out over years would soon become unwieldy, so I opted for listing the 12 months
only once and then plotting "years" as different lines (with different colors).
That would more efficiently reveal patterns across months and changes over
years. That change permitted a fairly simple workaround before even trying the
"VDX" format (that I WILL try later). I simply made "month" a numerical
variable (1-12) to get a nice line graph. Then I opted to hide the tick labels
on that axis and replace them with the month names using the "text label" tool;
not too tedious with only 12 to type and position. It looks great.
Tim
- Original Message -
From: "Sergey Gromov" <sergey.gro...@mpic.de>
To: "Simon Kleinknecht" <simon.kleinkne...@iws.uni-stuttgart.de>,
veusz-discuss@gna.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 12:52:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Veusz-discuss] line plot with text variable as x?
Hi Tim,
Take a look at format specifiers ("%V...", in axis labels properties) used in
Veusz.. they are slightly different from those used in C printf functions, but
quite flexible.
Quote (from http://home.gna.org/veusz/docs/manual.html#idp52342176 ):
Veusz allows dates and times to be formatted using "%VDX" where "X" is one of
the formatting characters for strftime (see
http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html for details). These
include "a" for an abbreviated weekday name, "A" for full weekday name, "b" for
abbreviated month name, "B" for full month name, "c" date and time
representaiton, "d" day of month 01..31, "H" hour as 00..23, "I" hour as
01..12, "j" as day of year 001..366, "m" as month 01..12, "M" minute as 00..59,
"p" AM/PM, "S" second 00..61, "U" week number of year 00..53 (Sunday as first
day of week), "w" weekday as decimal number 0..6, "W" week number of year
(Monday as first day of week), "x" date representation, "X" time
representation, "y" year without century 00..99 and "Y" year. "%VDVS" is a
special Veusz addon format which shows seconds and fractions of seconds (e.g.
12.2).
So, you can try using ( following
http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html ):
"%VDb" - is replaced by the locale's abbreviated month name.
"%VDm" - is replaced by the month as a decimal number [01,12]
Hope this helps,
Sergey
> -Original Message-
> From: Veusz-discuss [mailto:veusz-discuss-boun...@gna.org] On Behalf Of
> Simon Kleinknecht
> Sent: 09 February 2016 18:02
> To: veusz-discuss@gna.org
> Subject: Re: [Veusz-discuss] line plot with text variable as x?
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> only using month is difficult. You could use datetime objects (e.g.
> 2016-01-01, 2016-02-01, ...); however I don't know any way to display the
> month
> label on the axis. I can offer a workaround which you've already discovered.
> You
> could count up months (1, 2, ...) and provide an additional data set
> containing the
> respective labels (Jan, Feb, ...) which can then be displayed along the axis
> using
> an "empty" bar graph.
> Attached please find a quick-and-dirty example. I'm curious if there is a
> nicer way
> to do this.
>
> Regards
> Simon
>
> On 2016-02-09 05:28 PM, Tim Gaines wrote:
> > I'm new to the list today, and though I hope to plot some research results
> > later,
> my first goal is to plot some personal blood pressure measures as a function
> of
> month (a text variable). I haven't been able to make it happen. If I turn
> the month
> labels into a number sequence (1 to 12) it works, but I want to extend the
> plot
> over several years and don't want to keep counting up the months. Have I
> missed
> something?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
> >
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Re: [Veusz-discuss] line plot with text variable as x?
Hi Tim On 02/09/2016 05:28 PM, Tim Gaines wrote: I'm new to the list today, and though I hope to plot some research results later, my first goal is to plot some personal blood pressure measures as a function of month (a text variable). I haven't been able to make it happen. If I turn the month labels into a number sequence (1 to 12) it works, but I want to extend the plot over several years and don't want to keep counting up the months. Have I missed something? Another way to do this is to use a text dataset as labels. You can create a new text dataset containing Jan Feb Mar, etc... In your point plotter choose this dataset in the labels setting. Then change the horizontal axis mode to be labels. You can hide the text labels by each point under the plotter labels formatting tab. Hope this helps Jeremy ___ Veusz-discuss mailing list Veusz-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
Re: [Veusz-discuss] line plot with text variable as x?
Hi Tim,
only using month is difficult. You could use datetime objects (e.g.
2016-01-01, 2016-02-01, ...); however I don't know any way to display
the month label on the axis. I can offer a workaround which you've
already discovered. You could count up months (1, 2, ...) and provide an
additional data set containing the respective labels (Jan, Feb, ...)
which can then be displayed along the axis using an "empty" bar graph.
Attached please find a quick-and-dirty example. I'm curious if there is
a nicer way to do this.
Regards
Simon
On 2016-02-09 05:28 PM, Tim Gaines wrote:
> I'm new to the list today, and though I hope to plot some research results
> later, my first goal is to plot some personal blood pressure measures as a
> function of month (a text variable). I haven't been able to make it happen.
> If I turn the month labels into a number sequence (1 to 12) it works, but I
> want to extend the plot over several years and don't want to keep counting up
> the months. Have I missed something?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
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# Veusz saved document (version 1.23.2)
# Saved at 2016-02-09T16:55:36.314000
AddImportPath(u'F:\\')
ImportString(u'equal_ID(numeric)','''
1.00e+00
2.00e+00
3.00e+00
4.00e+00
5.00e+00
6.00e+00
7.00e+00
8.00e+00
9.00e+00
''')
SetDataText(u'equal_VarModelName', [
u'January',
u'February',
u'March',
u'April',
u'May',
u'June',
u'July',
u'August',
u'September',
])
ImportString(u'equal_coarse_ParetoSensitivity(numeric)','''
2.63e+01
1.93e+01
1.66e+01
1.26e+01
1.44e+01
3.76e+00
3.37e+00
2.45e+00
1.34e+00
''')
Set('StyleSheet/Font/font', u'Arial')
Set('StyleSheet/Font/size', u'10pt')
Set('StyleSheet/axis/Label/size', u'10pt')
Set('StyleSheet/axis/TickLabels/size', u'9pt')
Set('StyleSheet/axis/TickLabels/format', u'%g')
Set('StyleSheet/axis/MajorTicks/length', u'4pt')
Set('StyleSheet/axis/MinorTicks/length', u'2pt')
Set('StyleSheet/graph/leftMargin', u'1.2cm')
Set('StyleSheet/graph/bottomMargin', u'1cm')
Set('StyleSheet/grid/leftMargin', u'0cm')
Set('StyleSheet/grid/rightMargin', u'0cm')
Set('StyleSheet/grid/topMargin', u'.5cm')
Set('StyleSheet/grid/bottomMargin', u'.75cm')
Set('StyleSheet/imagefile/width', [0.5])
Set('StyleSheet/imagefile/height', [1.0])
Set('StyleSheet/key/Text/size', u'9pt')
Set('StyleSheet/key/keyLength', u'0.5cm')
Set('StyleSheet/key/marginSize', 0.5)
Set('StyleSheet/page/width', u'15cm')
Set('StyleSheet/page/height', u'10cm')
Set('StyleSheet/xy/markerSize', u'2pt')
Set('StyleSheet/xy/errorStyle', u'none')
Add('page', name='page1', autoadd=False)
To('page1')
Set('width', u'14cm')
Add('graph', name='graph1', autoadd=False)
To('graph1')
Set('bottomMargin', u'2.5cm')
Add('axis', name='x', autoadd=False)
To('x')
Set('label', u'')
Set('mode', u'labels')
Set('Label/offset', u'0pt')
Set('TickLabels/rotate', u'90')
Set('TickLabels/format', u'Auto')
Set('TickLabels/offset', u'3pt')
To('..')
Add('axis', name='y', autoadd=False)
To('y')
Set('direction', 'vertical')
To('..')
Add('xy', name='xy1', autoadd=False)
To('xy1')
Set('xData', u'equal_ID')
Set('yData', u'equal_coarse_ParetoSensitivity')
Set('labels', u'')
Set('scalePoints', [])
Set('Color/points', [])
To('..')
Add('bar', name='bar1', autoadd=False)
To('bar1')
Set('lengths', (u'',))
Set('posn', u'equal_ID')
Set('labels', u'equal_VarModelName')
To('..')
To('..')
To('..')
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Re: [Veusz-discuss] line plot with text variable as x?
Hi Tim,
Take a look at format specifiers ("%V...", in axis labels properties) used in
Veusz.. they are slightly different from those used in C printf functions, but
quite flexible.
Quote (from http://home.gna.org/veusz/docs/manual.html#idp52342176 ):
Veusz allows dates and times to be formatted using "%VDX" where "X" is one of
the formatting characters for strftime (see
http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html for details). These
include "a" for an abbreviated weekday name, "A" for full weekday name, "b" for
abbreviated month name, "B" for full month name, "c" date and time
representaiton, "d" day of month 01..31, "H" hour as 00..23, "I" hour as
01..12, "j" as day of year 001..366, "m" as month 01..12, "M" minute as 00..59,
"p" AM/PM, "S" second 00..61, "U" week number of year 00..53 (Sunday as first
day of week), "w" weekday as decimal number 0..6, "W" week number of year
(Monday as first day of week), "x" date representation, "X" time
representation, "y" year without century 00..99 and "Y" year. "%VDVS" is a
special Veusz addon format which shows seconds and fractions of seconds (e.g.
12.2).
So, you can try using ( following
http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html ):
"%VDb" - is replaced by the locale's abbreviated month name.
"%VDm" - is replaced by the month as a decimal number [01,12]
Hope this helps,
Sergey
> -Original Message-
> From: Veusz-discuss [mailto:veusz-discuss-boun...@gna.org] On Behalf Of
> Simon Kleinknecht
> Sent: 09 February 2016 18:02
> To: veusz-discuss@gna.org
> Subject: Re: [Veusz-discuss] line plot with text variable as x?
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> only using month is difficult. You could use datetime objects (e.g.
> 2016-01-01, 2016-02-01, ...); however I don't know any way to display the
> month
> label on the axis. I can offer a workaround which you've already discovered.
> You
> could count up months (1, 2, ...) and provide an additional data set
> containing the
> respective labels (Jan, Feb, ...) which can then be displayed along the axis
> using
> an "empty" bar graph.
> Attached please find a quick-and-dirty example. I'm curious if there is a
> nicer way
> to do this.
>
> Regards
> Simon
>
> On 2016-02-09 05:28 PM, Tim Gaines wrote:
> > I'm new to the list today, and though I hope to plot some research results
> > later,
> my first goal is to plot some personal blood pressure measures as a function
> of
> month (a text variable). I haven't been able to make it happen. If I turn
> the month
> labels into a number sequence (1 to 12) it works, but I want to extend the
> plot
> over several years and don't want to keep counting up the months. Have I
> missed
> something?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
> >
> > ___
> > Veusz-discuss mailing list
> > Veusz-discuss@gna.org
> > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
> >
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