Quick Little Plot
A tiny little program for making a plot of some data you've put into a text file.
Only tested to run on Xubuntu (Debian-based) GNU/Linux with OpenJDK 6 & 7.
Prerequisites
Requires that you have Java installed.
Requires that you download the xchart v1.2.0 jar and drop it into your ~/jars directory.
Install
After you've grabbed the xchart jar and moved it into your ~/jars directory (mentioned above):
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Clone this repo, or else click the "ZIP" button above to download.
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Compile the code, then build & install the jar:
cd quick-little-plot javac -sourcepath src -d classes -cp ~/jars/xchart-1.2.0.jar src/jmg/Main.java jar cvf quick-little-plot.jar -C classes jmg cp quick-little-plot.jar ~/bin
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Edit quick-little-plot.sh to use your home dir name, then copy it as well to your ~/bin. Make sure it's executable (
chmod +x quick-little-plot.sh
).
Usage
Put some data into a text file named whatever you like (say,
"some-data.txt"). One x, y
data point per line, but the first line
must be the name of the data set:
frob
1.1, 2.4
1.2, 2.7
1.3, 3.1
then:
quick-little-plot.sh "Plot Name" \
"x-axis name (units)" \
"y-axis name (units)" \
some-data.txt
That should produce a some-data-plot.png file for you.
Example Output
See the first example shown at http://xeiam.com/xchart_examplecode.jsp.
Author
Distributed under the MIT license (see LICENSE.txt file).
John Gabriele, 2012