{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 Axis Labels Detaching From Graph
Update: Oct 11, 2012
With the current version of TeXLive 2012, this problem no longer occurs with the standalone class. However using the article class, this problem still reproducible. The MWEs ...
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Unsung Heros - PSTricks, TikZ, pgfplots,
While watching presentations (mostly made with beamer) at my university I noticed, most people here use LaTeX to create there presentations which is really nice. (not just for the health of my eyes)
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Multiple axis discontinuities with pgfplots
I want to show narrow segments out of a large spectrum. Since it is one spectrum, I want to use one single plot, but hide the irrelevant parts. To make clear that I show disconnected parts, I want to ...
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pgfplots: problem with “non-smooth” intersection of two lines' ends
I have a problem like the one in this question, concerning a tikz drawing but for a pgfplots plot. I want to create a plot that has one region filled without opacity and a neighboring one filled with ...
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externalize pgfplots, and only pgfplots
I would like to externalize the plots in my document (using pgplots), but not other inline stuff, such as bonds automatically drawn by chemmacros. That is, in the following test document:
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Adjustable absolute axis labels in pgfplots
How can I use absolutely placed y labels, but still adjust the absolute placement? In the below example, I want to be able to get the two plots to align exactly, including the y labels.
If I add
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Trying to make an automatic histogram (in pgfplots?)
How can I convert the automatic table generated by the macro, to an automatic histogram?
Is the best way do it using pgfplots?
\documentclass{article}
\RequirePackage{ifthen}
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Switching math fonts and back to normal fails in figures?
For my current document I want to use a normal serif font for the main text. Most diagrams from other sources and myself are with sans serif fonts (TeX Gyre Heros). Now I want to use pgfplots to ...
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pgfplots: percentages and endvalues in stacked ybar
I have two questions regarding the pgfplots package. I have attached the source code I worked on. There are two features I am not able to realize:
I would like to put the total value (sum of the ...
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PGFPlots pattern bug
I tried to compile the example in How to combine fill and pattern in a pgfplot bar plot? to answer the question here PGFplots ybar patterns not showing and the pattern doesn't appear when I use ...
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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: Aligning multiple bars and marks horizontally along symbolic X-axis
I want to plot average values of some measure as bar charts with error bars and its maximal values as marks above the bars.
I use two separate plots for that now.
The problem is aligning marks with ...
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Time plot with pgfplots
I tried to plot this type of data
x y
00:00 99.42
00:15 99.44
00:30 99.41
00:45 99.37
01:00 99.00
01:15 99.29
01:30 99.51
01:45 99.58
02:00 99.49
02:15 99.50
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Decorate pgfplots mesh
In my quest to solve this question I'm trying to see if I can decorate a mesh-plot by drawing many circles or maybe rectangles with a radius determined by \pgfplotspointmetatransformed. But I can't ...
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Using `external` selective for TikZ-pictures
For the following example:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,external}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\tikzexternalize
\begin{document}
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Increasing dateplot's resolution to seconds
These three dots should be spread out over a period of 50 seconds, but for some reason they all appear at 13:00:30.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepgfplotslibrary{dateplot}
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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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Adding a normal vector to a curved mesh area
How can I put a normal vector on the outer blue mesh?
TeXample
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
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pgfplots: changing line axis and plotting lines width
I have some problems with the width of the lines in my graph. When I try to change the width of the plot lines, straight lines remain in the default width whereas the non-straight lines are shown in ...
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How to use only mathematical input in the first column with pgfplotstable
I can use a mix of text and mathematical input in the first column of a table generated with pgfplots with no problem, and also mathematical input in, e.g. the last column, as this mwe shows:
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Dissapearing plot (All values has been filtered away)
I am trying to get the following plot to work
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots,tikz}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.6}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{semilogyaxis}[%
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How to autoscale a horizontal barchart (pgfplots)
I need to export statistics from a database into PDF files, with a program. The database contains several tests and they need to be displayed as barcharts. Here is an example:
The problem is clear: ...
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Scale markers in external Tikz file
I use external .tikz files to include graphics in my LaTeX document. These .tikz files are generated by matlab2tikz.
The scatter plots that come out though have very small markers. I want to scale ...
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pgfplots - how to create a horizontal line plot in a bar chart with symbolic x axis labels
I was wondering if there was a way to get the line plots "Unseamed" and "Requirement" to span the whole width of the graph not just from the centre points of the first and last x axis labels. Is there ...
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Resizing pgf plots in an A0 beamer poster
I am creating a A0 scientific poster with the beamerposter package and I want to include TikZ/PGF plots. However, if I typeset these plots, the line width for the axis and for the data are too small. ...
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Matlab2tikz adds extra legend entries
The legend from a boxplot figure is not being created properly.
I get this:
Instead of thiS:
But really only need 2 legend entries. Any Ideas why all the objects in this plot are being given ...
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Naming 3D axes in pgfplots
I want to label the axes in a 3D plot with pgfplots. Using the anchors .right of origin and .above origin, I can label the axes as "x" and "y" in 2D with ease. In 3D, the labels must be tweaked to ...
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Tikz bar plot problem: Missing number, treated as zero \end
I have been trying to plot the figure:
by using TikZ. However, the code does not compile and I get many errors on line 48, which is \end{axis}, as follows:
Dimension too large
Missing number, ...
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Bode plot : any good alternative to bodegraph
I'm wondering if there is any alternative to "bodegraph" for plotting bode graph with latex.
Especially I would ideally be looking for something easy to run (avoid external computation like with ...
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How can I adjust the width of legend images in PGFPlots?
I am using pgfplots to create charts. How can I adjust the width of images of legend entries?
I have adjusted plot coordinates in legend image code in the line legend style, but this not worked ...
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I need to provide a duotone pdf, what do I need to do with my figures?
I need to provide a duotone pdf (say black and cyan). My figures are made with tikz, pgfplots and asymptote (3D but no prc), some with opacity effects. I compile with pdftex and luatex.
What do I ...
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Relative coordinates in pgfplots across multiple table plots
This is a follow up question to this one: Use pgfplots \addplot plot coordinates with relative coordinates
Is it also possible to have the relative coordinates across multiple plots?
For example if ...
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How to add axes in a magnified part of a graph using spy?
My problem is the following. I would like to draw the (magnified) axes on the magnified area of spy. For instance, take the following example (from pgfplots.pdf, p.121):
% Preamble: ...
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Compile time optimized “area under analytical curve” plotting with pgfplots?
There are some question regarding how to plot an area under a curve with pgfplots. But as far as I can see, all the answers have in common that a function has to be plotted twice with different style ...
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Using pgfplots and gnuplot and compiling with output-directory
I would like to use the pgfplots package along with gnuplot. However, I cannot get this to work if I compile using the -output-directory option. For example, if I have the following MWE:
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Pgfplots: How to make the plot exceed the axes
I am plotting a spike using pgfplots. I want to make the y-axis until (4) only. However I want the plot of the spike itself to continue beyond the y-axis (say until 10).
Is there a possible way to do ...
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Stacked bargraph nodes near coords too bunched up vertically tikz
How do I center the coordinates in their bars vertically? This shows horizontally in ybar
\documentclass[tikz,border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
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Contour plot: ignored columns, wrong color-assignment, 1D-interpolation
This forum has often been of a great help for me, but i never posted myself. So please excuse me, if i won't stick to every formality here perfectly. I will do my best. I hope it's ok that i have 3 ...
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elementwise division of two columns loaded from different files
My next question follows on Sum up rows from different data files where I asked how to sum up the data from different files.
In this case I have e.g. two data files, consisting of m (here e.g. m=3) ...
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axis discontinuity in bar chart
pgfplot provides the possibility to insert a discontinuity on the axes (see MWE 1 & first srceenshot). However, it seems as this discontinuity is only applicable from the value 0 to ymin/xmin.
I ...
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How can I display negative error bars in a logarithmic plot using pgfplots?
I have error bars representing 95% confidence intervals in a logarithmic plot. Some of the error bars extend to negative numbers for which the logarithm is undefined, so pgfplots simply drops the bar ...
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Free space in bar-chart with empty entries
I would like to plot some data set with the ybar option of pgfplot.
But not all entries are nonzero.
The zero entries waste space between the bars and when the plot gets crowed it is not clear anymore ...
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pgfplots: Plotting one data set with label and the other without label
I am trying to generate a plot using two data series and have the labels just on one of the series, but not the other. In the following example I would like to see the labels on first \addplot, but ...
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Hiding Decimal Results from PGF Output
I have this \foreach statement which results in even numbers with decimals. I would like to omit or hide the decimal from the results. How can this be done simply? I have seen a few answers to much ...
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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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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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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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Pgfplot figure off-center because of axis label
My figures are always off-center because the right axis is trimmed closer to the figure than the left. Do I have to manually extend the right axis by an adhoc amount every time?
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How can I prevent a node from being cropped in an axis environment?
I would like to put labels on the left side of a y-axis, but the text gets cropped. How can I prevent this?
(Also, the entries are looking awful, so any ideas how to make it looking better are ...
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Node only partially rendered near edge of plot
I'm trying to draw a relatively simple chart of a number line, and when one of the nodes is too close to the edge of the plot, it gets cut off.
The code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
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