plot errorbars workaround

[Daniel Kottow]

"John W. Eaton" wrote:
> 
> On  1-Mar-2000, Daniel Kottow <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | hi, i am trying to make a plot of errorbars using the plot command.
> | i think i have tried all ways, but i always get the same error:
> | error: invalid number of data columns = 2 specified for plot style
> | `errorbars'
> | i looked at the gnuplot web-site and i thought something like the
> | following should work:
> | x = [1 2 3 4]
> | y = [2 3 3 4;0 1 0 1;3 2 1.5 2.5]
> | (where i wanted y(1,:) to be a mean value and
> |  y(2,:) y(3,:) min and max values of a function z(x))
> | and called plot(x,y,"~")
> | but it doesn't work. anyone there to help?
> 
> It's a bug.  The workaround is to save your data to a file, then use
> gnuplot directly instead of using Octave's plot interface.
> 
> jwe
i have found an easier way around using gplot.
if you define 
xy = [x;y]
than u can use th efollowing:
gplot xy with errorbars
dk



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