Re: Different plot behavior in octave and gnuplot

[Francesco Potortì]

>Starting with the simplest plots given in the manual itself, I get expected
>output for hist(y), bar(y), and stairs(y), but plot(y) does not produce a
>horizontal line at y. I'm quite sure that plot(5), for example, should
>produce a horizontal line at y = 5, without additional syntax.   

I don't hink so.  For a quick example, try
 plot(1:2)

>when I set y = 5, and then try plot (y), I get a blank figure.  My question
>is, why doesn't this plot?

Because a plot is made of segments between points.  But if you have a
single point you cannot draw a line.  To get a horizontal line at y=5 do
 plot([5,5])

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