version bump

README.pod

@@ -292,7 +292,30 @@ As an example, if line 3 of the input is "0 9 1 20"
 
   --y2    xxx          Plot the data specified by this curve ID on the y2 axis.
                        Without --dataid, the ID is just an ordered 0-based index.
-                       Does not apply to 3d plots.
+                       Does not apply to 3d plots. Can be passed multiple times, or passed a
+                       comma-separated list
+
+  --histogram  curveID
+                       Set up a this specific curve to plot a histogram. The bin
+                       width is given with the --binwidth option (assumed 1.0 if
+                       omitted). --histogram does NOT touch the drawing style.
+                       It is often desired to plot these with boxes, and this
+                       MUST be explicitly requested with --curvestyleall 'with
+                       boxes'. This works with --domain and/or --stream, but in
+                       those cases the x-value is used ONLY to cull old data
+                       because of --xlen or --monotonic. I.e. the x-values are
+                       NOT drawn in any way. Can be passed multiple times, or passed a comma-
+                       separated list
+  --binwidth width     The width of bins when making histograms. This setting applies to ALL
+                       histograms in the plot. Defaults to 1.0 if not given.
+  --histstyle style    Normally, histograms are generated with the 'smooth freq'
+                       gnuplot style. --histstyle can be used to select
+                       different 'smooth' settings. Allowed are 'unique',
+                       'cumulative' and 'cnormal'. 'unique' indicates whether a
+                       bin has at least one item in it: instead of counting the
+                       items, it'll always report 0 or 1. 'cumulative' is the
+                       integral of the "normal" histogram. 'cnormal' is like
+                       'cumulative', but rescaled to end up at 1.0.
 
   --curvestyle curveID style
                        Additional styles per curve. With --dataid, curveID is the
@@ -302,7 +325,8 @@ As an example, if line 3 of the input is "0 9 1 20"
   --curvestyleall xxx  Additional styles for ALL curves.
 
   --extracmds xxx      Additional commands. These could contain extra global styles
-                       for instance
+                       for instance. Can be passed multiple times, or passed a comma-
+                       separated list
 
   --size  xxx          Gnuplot size option
 
@@ -312,7 +336,12 @@ As an example, if line 3 of the input is "0 9 1 20"
   --square_xy          For 3D plots, set square aspect ratio for ONLY the x,y axes
 
   --hardcopy xxx       If not streaming, output to a file specified here. Format
-                       inferred from filename
+                       inferred from filename, unless specified by --terminal
+  --terminal xxx       String passed to 'set terminal'. No attempts are made to
+                       validate this. --hardcopy sets this to some sensible
+                       defaults if --hardcopy is given .png, .pdf, .ps, .eps or
+                       .svg. If any other file type is desired, use both
+                       --hardcopy and --terminal
 
   --maxcurves xxx      The maximum allowed number of curves. This is 100 by default,
                        but can be reset with this option. This exists purely to

bin/feedgnuplot

@@ -89,19 +89,24 @@ sub interpretCommandline
   # do not stream in the data by default
   # point plotting by default.
   # no monotonicity checks by default
+  # normal histograms by default
   $options{ maxcurves } = 100;
+  $options{ histstyle}  = 'freq';
 
   # Previously I was using 'legend=s%' and 'curvestyle=s%' for curve addressing. This had cleaner
   # syntax, but disregarded the order of the given options. This resulted in arbitrarily ordered
   # curves.
   # needed for these to be parsed into a ref to a list
-  $options{legend}      = [];
+  $options{legend}     = [];
-  $options{curvestyle}  = [];
+  $options{curvestyle} = [];
+  $options{histogram}  = [];
   GetOptions($options, 'stream:s', 'domain!', 'dataid!', '3d!', 'colormap!', 'lines!', 'points!',
              'circles', 'legend=s{2}', 'autolegend!', 'xlabel=s', 'ylabel=s', 'y2label=s', 'zlabel=s',
              'title=s', 'xlen=f', 'ymin=f', 'ymax=f', 'xmin=f', 'xmax=f', 'y2min=f', 'y2max=f',
              'zmin=f', 'zmax=f', 'y2=s@', 'curvestyle=s{2}', 'curvestyleall=s', 'extracmds=s@',
              'size=s', 'square!', 'square_xy!', 'hardcopy=s', 'maxcurves=i', 'monotonic!',
+             'histogram=s@', 'binwidth=f', 'histstyle=s',
+             'terminal=s',
              'extraValuesPerPoint=i', 'help', 'dump',
              'geometry=s') or pod2usage(1);
 
@@ -112,6 +117,12 @@ sub interpretCommandline
   # no global style if one isn't given
   $options->{curvestyleall} = '' unless defined $options->{curvestyleall};
 
+  # expand options that are given as comma-separated lists
+  for my $listkey (qw(extracmds histogram y2))
+  {
+    @{$options{$listkey}} = map split('\s*,\s*', $_), @{$options{$listkey}};
+  }
+
   # parse stream option. Allowed only numbers >= 0 or 'trigger'
   if(defined $options->{stream})
   {
@@ -177,6 +188,12 @@ sub interpretCommandline
       print STDERR "--3d does not make sense with --monotonic\n";
       exit -1;
     }
+
+    if ( defined $options->{binwidth} || @{$options->{histogram}} )
+    {
+      print STDERR "--3d does not make sense with histograms\n";
+      exit -1;
+    }
   }
   else
   {
@@ -204,6 +221,12 @@ sub interpretCommandline
 
   # --xlen implies an order to the data, so I force monotonicity
   $options{monotonic} = 1 if defined $options{xlen};
+
+  if( $options{histstyle} !~ /freq|cum|uniq|cnorm/ )
+  {
+    print STDERR "unknown histstyle. Allowed are 'freq...', 'cum...', 'uniq...', 'cnorm...'\n";
+    exit -1;
+  }
 }
 
 sub getGnuplotVersion
@@ -264,22 +287,25 @@ sub mainThread
     if( $options{hardcopy})
     {
       $outputfile = $options{hardcopy};
-      ($outputfileType) = $outputfile =~ /\.(eps|ps|pdf|png)$/;
+      $outputfile =~ /\.(eps|ps|pdf|png|svg)$/i;
-      if(!$outputfileType) { die("Only .eps, .ps, .pdf and .png supported\n"); }
+      $outputfileType = $1 ? lc $1 : '';
 
       my %terminalOpts =
       ( eps  => 'postscript solid color enhanced eps',
         ps   => 'postscript solid color landscape 10',
         pdf  => 'pdfcairo solid color font ",10" size 11in,8.5in',
-        png  => 'png size 1280,1024' );
+        png  => 'png size 1280,1024',
+        svg  => 'svg');
 
-      print PIPE "set terminal $terminalOpts{$outputfileType}\n";
+      $options{terminal} ||= $terminalOpts{$outputfileType}
-      print PIPE "set output \"$outputfile\"\n";
+        if $terminalOpts{$outputfileType};
-    }
+
-    else
+      die "Asked to plot to file '$outputfile', but I don't know which terminal to use, and no --terminal given"
-    {
+        unless $options{terminal};
-      print PIPE "set terminal x11\n";
     }
+    print PIPE "set terminal $options{terminal}\n" if $options{terminal};
+    print PIPE "set output \"$outputfile\"\n"      if $outputfile;
+
 
     # If a bound isn't given I want to set it to the empty string, so I can communicate it simply to
     # gnuplot
@@ -387,6 +413,16 @@ sub mainThread
       }
     }
 
+# set up histograms
+    $options{binwidth} ||= 1; # if no binwidth given, set it to 1
+    print PIPE
+      "set boxwidth $options{binwidth}\n" .
+      "histbin(x) = $options{binwidth} * floor(0.5 + x/$options{binwidth})\n";
+    foreach (@{$options{histogram}})
+    {
+      setCurveAsHistogram( $_ );
+    }
+
     # regexp for a possibly floating point, possibly scientific notation number
     my $numRE   = '-?\d*\.?\d+(?:[Ee][-+]?\d+)?';
 
@@ -564,7 +600,9 @@ sub updateCurveOptions
 
   my $titleoption = defined $title ? "title \"$title\"" : "notitle";
   my $extraoption = defined $options{curvestyleall} ? $options{curvestyleall} : '';
-  $curveoptions->{options} = "$titleoption $curveoptions->{extraoptions} $extraoption";
+  my $histoptions = $curveoptions->{histoptions} || '';
+
+  $curveoptions->{options} = "$histoptions $titleoption $curveoptions->{extraoptions} $extraoption";
 }
 
 sub getCurve
@@ -609,6 +647,16 @@ sub setCurveLabel
   updateCurveOptions($curve->[0], $id);
 }
 
+sub setCurveAsHistogram
+{
+  my ($id, $str) = @_;
+
+  my $curve = getCurve($id);
+  $curve->[0]{histoptions} = 'using (histbin($2)):(1.0) smooth ' . $options{histstyle};
+
+  updateCurveOptions($curve->[0], $id);
+}
+
 # remove all the curve data
 sub clearCurves
 {
@@ -919,7 +967,30 @@ As an example, if line 3 of the input is "0 9 1 20"
 
   --y2    xxx          Plot the data specified by this curve ID on the y2 axis.
                        Without --dataid, the ID is just an ordered 0-based index.
-                       Does not apply to 3d plots.
+                       Does not apply to 3d plots. Can be passed multiple times, or passed a
+                       comma-separated list
+
+  --histogram  curveID
+                       Set up a this specific curve to plot a histogram. The bin
+                       width is given with the --binwidth option (assumed 1.0 if
+                       omitted). --histogram does NOT touch the drawing style.
+                       It is often desired to plot these with boxes, and this
+                       MUST be explicitly requested with --curvestyleall 'with
+                       boxes'. This works with --domain and/or --stream, but in
+                       those cases the x-value is used ONLY to cull old data
+                       because of --xlen or --monotonic. I.e. the x-values are
+                       NOT drawn in any way. Can be passed multiple times, or passed a comma-
+                       separated list
+  --binwidth width     The width of bins when making histograms. This setting applies to ALL
+                       histograms in the plot. Defaults to 1.0 if not given.
+  --histstyle style    Normally, histograms are generated with the 'smooth freq'
+                       gnuplot style. --histstyle can be used to select
+                       different 'smooth' settings. Allowed are 'unique',
+                       'cumulative' and 'cnormal'. 'unique' indicates whether a
+                       bin has at least one item in it: instead of counting the
+                       items, it'll always report 0 or 1. 'cumulative' is the
+                       integral of the "normal" histogram. 'cnormal' is like
+                       'cumulative', but rescaled to end up at 1.0.
 
   --curvestyle curveID style
                        Additional styles per curve. With --dataid, curveID is the
@@ -929,7 +1000,8 @@ As an example, if line 3 of the input is "0 9 1 20"
   --curvestyleall xxx  Additional styles for ALL curves.
 
   --extracmds xxx      Additional commands. These could contain extra global styles
-                       for instance
+                       for instance. Can be passed multiple times, or passed a comma-
+                       separated list
 
   --size  xxx          Gnuplot size option
 
@@ -939,7 +1011,12 @@ As an example, if line 3 of the input is "0 9 1 20"
   --square_xy          For 3D plots, set square aspect ratio for ONLY the x,y axes
 
   --hardcopy xxx       If not streaming, output to a file specified here. Format
-                       inferred from filename
+                       inferred from filename, unless specified by --terminal
+  --terminal xxx       String passed to 'set terminal'. No attempts are made to
+                       validate this. --hardcopy sets this to some sensible
+                       defaults if --hardcopy is given .png, .pdf, .ps, .eps or
+                       .svg. If any other file type is desired, use both
+                       --hardcopy and --terminal
 
   --maxcurves xxx      The maximum allowed number of curves. This is 100 by default,
                        but can be reset with this option. This exists purely to

completions/bash/feedgnuplot

@@ -37,4 +37,8 @@ complete -W                                     \
     --dump                                      \
     --geometry                                  \
     --curvestyle                                \
+    --histogram                                 \
+    --binwidth                                  \
+    --histstyle                                 \
+    --terminal                                  \
     --legend' feedgnuplot

completions/zsh/_feedgnuplot

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 _arguments -S                                                                           \
     '()--domain[first element of each line is the domain variable]'                     \
     '--dataid[each data point is preceded by the corresponding ID]'                     \
-    '(--monotonic --xlen)--3d'                                                          \
+    '(--monotonic --xlen --histogram)--3d'                                              \
     '--colormap[show a colormapped xy plot]'                                            \
     '--stream[Plot the data in realtime]::period in s:'                                 \
     '--lines'                                                                           \
@@ -38,4 +38,8 @@ _arguments -S
     '--dump[Instead of printing to gnuplot, print to STDOUT]'                           \
     '--geometry[The X11 geometry string]:geometry string:'                              \
     '*--curvestyle[Additional styles for a curve]:curve id: :style:'                    \
+    '(--3d)*--histogram:plot to treat as a histogram:'                                  \
+    '--binwidth:Histogram bin width:'                                                   \
+    '--histstyle:Style of histogram:(frequency unique cumulative cnormal)'              \
+    '--terminal:Terminal options to set with "set terminal":'                           \
     '*--legend[Legend for a curve]:curve id: :legend:'

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+feedgnuplot (1.20) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * no longer hardcoding 'x11' as the default terminal
+  * added histogram support
+  * generic terminals can now be requested
+  * --extracmds, --histogram, --y2 can now take comma-separated lists
+
+ -- Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>  Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:35:50 -0700
+
 feedgnuplot (1.19) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * added --geometry option to specify plot dimensions