{pgfplots} is a package for creating 2D and 3D plots of mathematical functions and numerical data, using the PGF graphics framework. For questions about the inbuilt plotting functionality of TikZ/PGF, use {tikz-pgf} instead.

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PGFPlot/Tikz Legend Error

I wish to add a legend to my two plots - red and black, but the legend seems to have some scaling issues. I think it may be due to the changes made in shifting and domains, but I am not sure! ...
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PGFPlots append text to all contour labels

Is it possible to append a text suffix (in my case a unit) to all labels in a PGFPlots contour plot? For example, consider the following plot: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} ...
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pgfplots: How to move bar labels [duplicate]

2 questions: 1) How do I move my data labels to the center of my bars? 2) How do I make the labels be purely data labels, and not cumulative values? eg I want the red bar labels to be the value of ...
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How to add PGF plot marker separately to document? [duplicate]

Say I have some PGF plot, which uses some custom plot markers, for instance: \newcommand{\scaleofcirc}{0.85} \pgfdeclareplotmark{manualcirc} { ...
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Nodes near coords gives Undefined Control Sequence

I have the following example of a graph. I want to place the items in the table "Restart" next to the nodes. Everything works until I add "nodes near coords", I get a bunch of errors saying "Undefined ...
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pgfplots scale legend position when below xlabel

When using matlab2tikz to generate a .tikz from Matlab where the legend location is set to 'SouthOutside' (below the ylabel of figure), the position of the legend will cover the ylabel unless the ...
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New line in pgfplots/tikz not displaying in TeX

I have a multiple-line legend entry to preserve the width of my figure. I can use \newline in Matlab and the legend entry is split between two lines. When I produce a .tikz of the figure however, I ...
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Add labels to y ticks in bar chart [duplicate]

I'm just starting to mess with pgfplots and just had a quick question in formatting bar charts. Specifically, I was trying to add labels to each of my y ticks and i couldn't figure it out. ...
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How do I add other plots to a stacked plot?

If I have a ybar stacked axis type, how can I add another plot such as a jump plot on top? The example below shows more or less what I need:
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Modulo calculation in PGFplots tick label

I am printing a diagram and want to use a_[0...3] as tick labels on the x-axis. Right now I have a[0...7] as labels and look for a way to print a[\tick mod 4] (i.e. a_0, a_1, a_2, a_3, a_0, a_1, a_2, ...
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Decimal number in axis tick using: “x tick=data” [duplicate]

I have found the following problem during the building of an histogram: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{/pgf/number format/use comma,compat=newest} ...
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pgfplots, toks, position of pin edge

I want to use pins to comment specific points in a diagramm. When I use a edge like -> it works fine. But if I use *- for example then the center of the dot is not at the position it should be. ...
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Semantics for parametric plots with pgfplots

I wasn't able to find in the pgfplots manual the exact semantics for pairwise mathematical expressions. Could you clarify the following variations? % Assume x(t) is parametrized by t in [0,1] and ...
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Add annotations at right margin of plot

I'd like to add annotations outside the plotting area, at the right axis, and at positions that depend on the coordinates of the plot. I could do that with custom ticks, or adding nodes manually, but ...
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Using remember picture with pgfplots

The two rectangles in the example plot, by my reckoning, should overlap exactly. I would be most grateful if somebody could explain why they don't! My presumption is that this is a bug in my TikZ ...
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How to mitigate “same number of coordinates” error?

I have a rather complicated pgfplots graph mixing const plot with ybar stacked and it doesn't like the data sets I am importing due to coordinate mismatch. However the graphs are correct and exactly ...
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pgfplots: Splitting xlabel on two lines

I want to split xlabel into lines. My MWE is below: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.7} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ % xlabel ...
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How to add legend to contour plots?

The following does not work: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz,pgfplots} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[view={0}{90},legend entries={foo,bar}] % 'legend entries' causes ...
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pgfplots trim to axis area even with extra ticklabels

I have a plot with extra x tick labels on top in pgfplots that i wish to display in a figure at the top of my page. I wish to have the top of the actual axis rectangle directly at the top, with the ...
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pgfplots custom axis scaling function

If I have a data set in which most of the interesting stuff happens for small values of x then I can use \begin{semilogxaxis} ... \end{semilogxaxis} to create a plot with a logarithmic x axis, which ...
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PGFplots and table with different number of elements in columns

I am trying to plot a table where I have different number of elements in the columns. In the MWE, the pairs (x1,y1),...,(x4,y4) all have different number of elements, can I use PGFplots in such ...
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Where is the pattern list gallery for pgfplots?

Where is the list, or gallery of the patterns available for pgfplots?
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pgf plot, polar plot: how do i ensure that the 0 degree label begins in the north and not in the east?

I am using the polar library with pgfplots to plot a graph like this: \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.65] \begin{polaraxis} \addplot coordinates {(0,1) (45,1)}; \addplot coordinates {(180,0.5) (172,1) ...
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How can I plot bigger amounts of data?

I am currently playing around with hailstone sequences (collatz numbers). I would like to create a plot like this (from Wikipedia): But I don't know how this kind of plot is called (it's neither a ...
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pgfplots to plot a function from [4,4.001]

When I try to plot a function on a small range, the output is an empty graph from 0 to 1 on the x and y axis. What can I do to fix this? My tex looks like this: \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ ...
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Externally set ymin, ymax, xmin and xmax with pgfplotset

According to percusses answer in Argument to \input or \include statement? both height and width in the axis environment in PGFplots may be set externally (outside the axis environment) with a nested ...
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pgfplots with gnuplot

I got a problem with latex implementing a gnuplot code. I use PdfLatex with argument "--enable-write18". The following code should works with the first commented-out line %plot 'data.dat' u 1:2;, but ...
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How can I display tick marks on only one axis of a pgfplots graph?

How can I display tick marks on only one axis of a pgfplots graph? Here is some simple code to work with: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots} \begin{document} ...
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Trouble with each nth point {integer}

I am trying to plot a big size vectors using pgfplots but I always I get the following: Package pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/tikz/each nth point' and I am going to ignore it.... Is ...
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Plotting a histogram from a dat file using pgfplot

I want to create a histogram from a dat file with two columns, error and frequency. It also has a large amount of bins, 501. I have followed instructions provided elsewhere on this site but the data ...
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Using nan values in pgfplots

I use addplot to plot a data set which has nan values. The data file contains 5 columns. First column is the x-axis (time), the second and fourth is the wavelenght (same element, but 2 measurements) ...
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Changing the default file path for \addplot table {myfile}

Is there a way to add a file path prefix (ideally defined by a key) to the "argument" of \addplot table. Something like \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{% table file ...
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pgfplots: How to fix the number of yticks?

With max space between ticks= it is possible to set space between ticks, but I would like to setup the number of ticks, so all my graphs will look similar. I would be happy with 4 ticks, so if y vary ...
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How to tell pgfplots to keep empty “series”?

I have a plot with xticklabels defined as symbolic. In a modified version of my plot, I want to set ymin value. When doing this, my plot is automatically updated: all x series having only points ...
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tikz plot change one value of x axis

I'm not so familiar with tikz plot. The plot looks actually like it should, but I would like to change the last position value 300 to n in the plot. Is this possible ? \documentclass[]{article} ...
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How to modify the image of an legend entry

I have the following code \documentclass[tikz,convert={size=640}]{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ legend entries={simulation sample 1, ...
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Pgfplots: Drawing Arrows Along Contour Plots

I would like to draw "stealth" arrows in place of the "0" labels along the trajectory in the phase portrait pictured below. I decided to draw the trajectory using the contour functionality of ...
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TikZ/PGF \closedcycle to y axis

Consider the following MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz, pgfplots} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis} \addplot [domain=0.7:1.6,samples=20, fill=red!50!white] ...
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Is it possible to shift ticks position in a graph to match APA style ?

I have been looking for a while for a way to shift ticks on a graph. I found many options regarding ticks positions, labels or size but I could not find a way to move them orthogonally to the axis ...
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A workaround for visualization depends on and ybar stacked

Are there any workarounds for the bug? The "visualization depends on" function causes an error with stacked plots. With "ybar stacked", the minimal example generates the error message ...
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pgfplots: Scatter plot with multiple series side-by-side

I have multiple machines on which I did benchmarks. Now I wan to use pgfplots to show multiple y values (the variance in the measurement) for a single x value (a benchmark parameter) within a single ...
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pgfplots: Displaying a bar graph and a table from the same input file

I try to display on one Beamer slide a bar graph and a table with numbers taken from the same input file (to avoid repetition when copying the data). For now, I am stuck on this error message: ...
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Define error bar color in scatter class

I'm using scatter/classes to define color and markers for a plot, and I would like to specify the error bar color this way as well (to match the marker color). I have seen the error bar colors in ...
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Set xstep and ystep pgfplots

I have this MWE. My question is how can set xsep and ystep in the axis so that they will properly appear, and without have to know in prior the range of values: xtick={0,0.1,...,1}, ...
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pgfplots grouped bar chart from file

I am trying to create a grouped bar chart with pgfplots from a file that contains a data table. However in the resulting picture the bars are not grouped but on top of each other. Every working ...
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Lining up angled tick labels on a pgfplots bar plot

I'm trying to produce a bar chart for publication with math text in the tick labels. The most readable layout would be to angle them, but when I do they clash with the axis and are difficult to relate ...
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Adjusting width of ybar interval separator to width of histogram bars

I have an array of numbers for which I want to create a histogram for the first 22 entries. I want to show both the first few entries of the array as a bar plot as well as the histogram in two ...
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tikz.sty not found for Texniccenter [closed]

I did search online, but didn't find any good answer for it. That is it. I found the solution. Go to miktex package manager; type 'tikz.sty' in the File name table; search it and then install what ...
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local extrema pgfplots - smooth

Is it possible to change this code for a "smooth" plot? How can I automatically mark local extrema with pgfplots and scatter? MWE \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} ...
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Fill the area enclosed by multiple functions in a single plot

I wish to fill the area enclosed by four functions, as indicated by the hatching in red in the figure below: So far I've been able to fill the area between each pair of functions, as shown below: ...

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