Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to make scatter plot and bar graphs in same figure?

2009-02-18 Thread Manuel Metz
Ryan May wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Manuel Metz wrote: > >> Attached is a very simple example that shows how to do something similar >> to scatterhist in matplotlib >> >> > That's a nice example. Are you going to check

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to make scatter plot and bar graphs in same figure?

2009-02-16 Thread Manuel Metz
Attached is a very simple example that shows how to do something similar to scatterhist in matplotlib Manuel per freem wrote: > hello, > > is there a way to make a 2d scatter plot that includes (outside the axes) > histograms of the marginals of the two variables? like the matlab function > 'sca

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Legends for multi-histograms

2008-12-11 Thread Manuel Metz
Zane Selvans wrote: > It seems like there ought to be an easy way to associate labels with the > various groups of patches generated by a call to hist() that uses a list > of arrays, setting label=["a", "list", "of", "strings"] for instance, > instead of having to go in and label one patch from

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Make markers in legend to appear only once

2008-12-01 Thread Manuel Metz
Manuel Metz wrote: > Alejandro Weinstein wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Manuel Metz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> You can use the keyword "numpoints" in the legend method: >> Thank you! It did the trick. >> >> Now how you conclude t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Make markers in legend to appear only once

2008-12-01 Thread Manuel Metz
Alejandro Weinstein wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Manuel Metz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can use the keyword "numpoints" in the legend method: > > Thank you! It did the trick. > > Now how you conclude that from the documentation is a mystery

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Make markers in legend to appear only once

2008-12-01 Thread Manuel Metz
Alejandro Weinstein wrote: > Hi: > > I am plotting using markers, in a similar way than this example: > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/legend_demo2.html > > As you can see in the example above, the markers in the legend appear > twice: " 'green circle' 'green circle'

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting histograms with zero counts

2008-12-01 Thread Manuel Metz
Manuel Metz wrote: > Yang Zhang wrote: >> Hi, when I do: >> >>hist([0,0,0], bins=10, range=(0,10)) >> >> How come the single bin takes up the entire plot? Same with just two >> values, or anything less than 10 - the two bars take up the entire plot,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting histograms with zero counts

2008-12-01 Thread Manuel Metz
Yang Zhang wrote: > Hi, when I do: > >hist([0,0,0], bins=10, range=(0,10)) > > How come the single bin takes up the entire plot? Same with just two > values, or anything less than 10 - the two bars take up the entire plot, > no matter what I plug in for range. I'd just like 10 bins, from

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Please help with 3d scatter plot

2008-10-27 Thread Manuel Metz
Jeremy Conlin wrote: > I have a function (shown below) that would take a 3D numpy array and plot > points in 3D. I recently updated my matplotlib with the latest Enthought > Python Distribution and now it doesn't work; I guess matplotlib changed the > api a little bit. > > The first problem arise

Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem with histogram

2008-09-08 Thread Manuel Metz
Antonino Cucchiara wrote: > Hello list, > I am trying to run the "histogram_demo_extended.py" on my mac 10.5. > I installed matplotlib through the scisoft package. > The normal hist command works fine but when I tried to use "align" or > "histtype" keyward I get this kind of error: > > [Macintosh

Re: [Matplotlib-users] can we set markerspacing?

2008-08-06 Thread Manuel Metz
Mark Bakker wrote: > Can we set the markerspacing in mpl? > > If I do > > plot( linspace(0,10,100), 'o' ) You can try the following approach: First plot the line and then plot the markers separately (and set colors). x = linspace(0,10,100) y = x plot(x, y, '-') plot(x[::10], y[::10], linestyle

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using Hex number with shape syntax

2008-08-04 Thread Manuel Metz
stuartornum wrote: > Hi, > > I am just playing around with different shapes and colours at the moment, I > have managed the "standard" colours like this: > > plot(Time, Value, 'r.') > > Which obviously prints a red dot. > > However how do use the hex colour map with the ".", I have tried: > >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] draw upper and lower limits

2008-07-31 Thread Manuel Metz
Antonino Cucchiara wrote: > Hi, > I have some graphs with lower and upper limits. I found a couple of > ideas online, but nothing like "plotting symbols" like arrows. > I am using the mathtex upperarrow symbol but it is quite unconfortable > positioning the tex character in the righ X-Y position.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how add axes scale to my plot?

2008-07-30 Thread Manuel Metz
sa6113 wrote: > I am using matplotlib to draw and show my plot, now I want to know how may I > add manual axes scale to it. > I need to manually show the axes scale (from min to max value that I have) > the below is some part of my code. > . > . > . > from matplotlib.figureimport Figure > >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] import pylab produces rounding error

2008-07-16 Thread Manuel Metz
John Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Angela Rivera Campos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hi, again >> >> I've trying to install everything, from the begining on another machine, >> this one's running openSUSE 10.3. So I've installed the latest versions of >> numpy, scipy and matp

Re: [Matplotlib-users] twinx memory leak

2008-07-15 Thread Manuel Metz
John Hunter wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can confirm this. Commenting out "del Gcf.figs[num]" in Gcf.destroy (in _pylab_helpers.py) also seems to resolve the leak. But I have no idea why, so I won't commit it just yet. I don't have mu

Re: [Matplotlib-users] twinx memory leak

2008-07-14 Thread Manuel Metz
Michael Droettboom wrote: > Which backend? GTK, GTKAgg, TK, but not with any backend without a window: Agg, Cairo, PS, PDF, SVG ... Cheers, Manuel > Cheers, > Mike > > Manuel Metz wrote: >> Michael Droettboom wrote: >>> Thanks for the report. So we can

Re: [Matplotlib-users] twinx memory leak

2008-07-14 Thread Manuel Metz
Michael Droettboom wrote: > Thanks for the report. So we can diagnose this, what version of > matplotlib are you reporting this for? > > Also, you may be interested in the following FAQ (and the one following it): > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#LEAKS Hi, I tested this with

Re: [Matplotlib-users] import pylab produces rounding error

2008-07-10 Thread Manuel Metz
Angela Rivera Campos wrote: > Hi, > > I'm quite a newbie on matplotlib. > > I'm trying to get some data from a file. I've got a function that reads > the data from the file and stores it in a tuple as a set of floats. When > I use this without importing pylab it just go well but when I do it >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Bug: mad interference between matplotlib and openbabel

2008-06-26 Thread Manuel Metz
Hi Florian, you should try "import pylab" or "import pylab as P". "from pylab import *" might overwrite some functions or methods ... if a pylab function/method has the same name as one in a module imported with * before. See the following example: #file a.py def foo(): print "I'm a" #

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Version 0.98 behavior change - scatter

2008-06-16 Thread Manuel Metz
Eric Firing wrote: > Michael Droettboom wrote: >> As a quick-fix workaround, you can do: >> >> from matplotlib.pyplot import * >> p = scatter([0,1,2,3], [4,5,6,7], c ='k', alpha=0, edgecolor = 'k') >> p._alpha = 1.0 >> p.set_edgecolor('k') >> show() >> >> But the deeper question is for the rest of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How is the size value used to generate symbols?

2008-05-23 Thread Manuel Metz
Neil Crighton wrote: > I'd like to plot values where the area of a marker is proportional to > some value. How is the size value given in, say: > > scatter(x,y,'o',s=10) > > used to generate the markers? By eye it looks like the size value is > proportional to the area (i.e. proportional to the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] hist is broken in SVN when using numpy 1.1.0.dev5077

2008-05-19 Thread Manuel Metz
Hi Glenn, please update numpy!!! Indeed, it is the other way around: The "new" keyword-arg isn't deprecated it is *NEW* (has been added in numpy revision r5085, you are using r5077). Have a look at this: http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/roadmap#Semanticchangeforhistogram Please note that

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Easiest way of drawing a circle?

2008-05-08 Thread Manuel Metz
Søren Nielsen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using wxpython with matplotlib, I now have a figurecanvas embedded in my > program and I can plot stuff using: > > a = self.fig.gca() > a.plot(x,y) > > But what is the easiest and fastest way to draw a circle? I saw that the > artist class has a draw_arc functi

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Custom Pie-Like Marker In Scatter

2008-04-18 Thread Manuel Metz
Andrea Gavana wrote: Hi All, I was wondering about custom markers in the scatter method, and I thought to ask here for some suggestions. Basically, I have 3 variables to show, which are oil, gas and water production. I would like to define the bubble size by the sum of these three variables (

Re: [Matplotlib-users] contour plot axis labels

2008-04-08 Thread Manuel Metz
Jochen Küpper wrote: > Hi, > > when I create a contour plot with the following grid: >xval = [ 1.3324, 1.9971, 1.00016618] >yval = [250, 260, 270] >data = ones((3,3)) >contourf(xval, yval, data) > > matplotlib creates a contour plot with an x-axes labels of > "0.32

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Double zooming with twinx

2008-04-07 Thread Manuel Metz
Paul Smith wrote: > I'm plotting two curves in one subplot with twinx to allow different y > scales. > The script below is an example. > When zooming in using zoom-to-rect on Tk's navigation toolbar2 (TkAgg is my > backend) I think the x axis part of the zoom is happening twice. > Rubberbandin

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How do I widen the space for y coordinate ticks?

2008-04-03 Thread Manuel Metz
carlwenrich wrote: > without having to increase the width of the whole chart? Have a look at examples/major_minor_demo1.py and examples/major_minor_demo2.py. I guess you are looking for something like this ... Manuel - Ch

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Efficient scatter() w/ markers from plot()?

2008-03-20 Thread Manuel Metz
bol gets rotated by this angle So in principle with this you can produce an endless number of different markers... :-) Manuel -- --- Manuel Metz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Argelander Institut fuer Astronomie Auf dem Huegel 71 (room 3.06) D - 53121 Bon

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Point-specific colors with scatter

2008-03-14 Thread Manuel Metz
Fred Mailhot wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got 4 time series that live in a 2-d space (imagine points at > (1,1), (1,2),(2,1), and (2,2) that drift a little over time), and I'm > using scatter() to show them. How can I plot so that each of the > groups of points has the same colour? > > I've checke

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Scatter legend doesn't show markers

2008-02-23 Thread Manuel Metz
Erik Tollerud wrote: > I use the scatter(x,y) command to make scatter plots, but I noticed > today (on the SVN version of mpl) that when I call legend() after > giving scatter(x,y,label='somelabel') , the legend doesn't show the > marker symbols - it only has a square patch colored in the color th

Re: [Matplotlib-users] dashes and dpi?

2008-02-01 Thread Manuel Metz
Mark Bakker wrote: > Alan - > > You started a discussion about dpi on the figures. > Yet here you claim that 1pt = 1/72 inch. > Is that always the case? Yes, I that's *by definition* always the case ! pt is a point - not a dot or a pixel !!! "Point" is a unit of measurement used in typography t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Subplot Questions

2008-01-28 Thread Manuel Metz
Cheng-Kong Wu wrote: > Dear all, > > I am working on sending vibration results to two > plots: subplot(211) and subplot(212). I have the > following questions: > > 1. How to define the size of the figure? I will > eventually import the figure into Microsoft Word, and > I hope I can fit the figure

Re: [Matplotlib-users] rectangular bracket in mathtext

2008-01-10 Thread Manuel Metz
Michael Droettboom wrote: > You need to escape the [: > >mpl_pp.xlabel(r"$\[$") > > [] and {} have special meanings in math syntax, so to use them > "literally", they need to be escaped. Really? Note that Matthias had text.usetex=False. I tried various configurations: text.usetex=True

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib] gscatter

2008-01-10 Thread Manuel Metz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > matalb has a gscatter command that work like this" > > GSCATTER(X,Y,G) creates a scatter plot of the vectors X and Y > grouped by G. Points with the same value of G are shown with > the same color and marker. G is a grouping variable defined as > a vector,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib] gscatter

2008-01-10 Thread Manuel Metz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks ! i didn't know that. > Do you know also if it is possible to have something similar to a scatter > group ? Sorry, but what do you mean by "scatter group" ? > Thanks > Giorgio - Check out

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib] gscatter

2008-01-10 Thread Manuel Metz
Hi, you are limited to 10 "named" symbols. But you can use much more symbols with scatter !!! Have a look at examples/scatter_star_symbols.py. You can use: pylab.scatter(x,y,marker=(5,0)) produces a 5-sided regular polygon. pylab.scatter(x,y,marker=(5,1)) produces a starlike polygon

Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting manual axis range?

2007-10-30 Thread Manuel Metz
Darran Edmundson wrote: > Two simple questions: > > 1) How does one create a simple xy plot with a user-specified y-axis > range? Combination of setting kwargs ylim and autoscale_on doesn't seem > to do it ... pylab.ylim( (ymin, ymax) ) or pylab.gca().set_ylim( (ymin, ymax) ) ? > 2) If I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] facecolor and scatter

2007-10-18 Thread Manuel Metz
John, svn works fine now. thanks. John Hunter wrote: > On 10/18/07, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You should use the "c" argument for scatter -- this controls the facecolor. >> >> scatter(x,x+0.5, c='blue', s=50, alpha=0.5) >> >> This is a bit of an anachronism from matlab compatibi

[Matplotlib-users] facecolor and scatter

2007-10-18 Thread Manuel Metz
It seems that the keywords facecolor (or color) and alpha can not be used simultaniously when using "scatter": import pylab x = pylab.npy.arange(0,10) pylab.scatter(x,x, s=50, alpha=0.5) pylab.scatter(x,x+0.5, facecolor='blue', s=50, alpha=0.5) pylab.show() The alpha value of the second call

Re: [Matplotlib-users] error bars on scatter plot

2007-09-13 Thread Manuel Metz
Hi, pylab.scatter(x,y) pylab.errorbar(x,y,yerr,linestyle='None') if you want to use scatter, or alternatively: pylab.errorbar(x,y,yerr,fmt='o',linestyle='None') Manuel Armen Nalian wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering where I can get an example of a scatter plot with error > bars. > I have time

Re: [Matplotlib-users] error bars on scatter plot

2007-09-13 Thread Manuel Metz
Hi, pylab.scatter(x,y) pylab.errorbar(x,y,yerr,linestyle='None') if you want to use scatter, or alternatively: pylab.errorbar(x,y,yerr,fmt='o',linestyle='None') Manuel Armen Nalian wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering where I can get an example of a scatter plot with error > bars. > I have time

Re: [Matplotlib-users] combine eps files into a ps file ?

2007-09-12 Thread Manuel Metz
On a Linux box: psmerge -ooutfile.ps figure1.eps figure2.eps Anyway, I guess you need an external tool to do this ... Manuel Lingyun Yang wrote: > Hi, > >I am using matplotlib to visualize my data, but the data sometimes have > several sets. > Can I plot each set as usual to a EPS file,