{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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How to correctly set a colorbar for an external graphic? [closed]
I created a pdf file from a Matlab imagesc plot. I have remove the colorbar and axis and now I want to have this image in my tex document. I manged to get the axes almost as I want them, but the ...
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How to I fix my axis to suit the correct order of magnitude? [duplicate]
Problem:
It's the times ten to the 3 bit part which bothers me. Not just that is exists but also because it's positioned itself in a strange place.
My files is formatted so it is in MHz so I don't ...
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How can I fix the formatting of my axis using pgfplots so the axis titles aren't on top of the numbers?
How can I offset my ylabel so it doesn't smudge with the numbers?
code
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
scale=1.8,
xmin=-15,xmax=15,xlabel={Current $mA$}, ...
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standalone pgfplot with extra include in subdirectory -> no output
I am trying to generate a pgfplot with data in a textfile as a standalone document.
I am using the 1.2 version of standalone from https://bitbucket.org/martin_scharrer/standalone/downloads because it ...
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Pgfplots gives spurious lines in external mode with geometry
This is not a major problem but all the same I would like to confirm that I am not doing anything wrong. Geometry package with showframe=true option is used to see if all the figures are within the ...
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Fading of horizontal lines is impossible?
The path fading option in TikZ is obviously not working for horizontal lines.
For plotting constant functions as well as for drawing a line between two points. Making them slightly tilted solves the ...
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Create standalone pictures
I am trying to write a sample code to be used as a template to generate pictures that will be latter included in a paper. At this stage, the pictures are only plots.
I have the following code. But it ...
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External graphics and tikz externalize won't work together
I am using the tikz library external a lot and with success - so far. Now, I need to import an external file (eps, png, pdf... I don't care), and add the axes. I know I can do this with \addplot ...
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Background color in pgfplots that extends beyond the axis of the plot
I am interested in adding a background-color to my pgfplots plot that extends beyond the axis of the plot. See the image bellow for clarification; I am interested in adding a background color such as ...
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number format in pgfplots axis
How can I change the type of the decimal/thousand separator from the american one to the european one? More precisely, I want:
"1000" to be written as is, instead of "1,000"
"0,1" instead of "0.1"
...
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pgfplots: get color setting from table
I want to plot multiple lines using pgfplots.
Each of the lines should have a color, depending on the group it belongs to.
In the example attached, a table is provided, containing all the ...
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tikz plots alignment
I'm trying to produce a figure using
\begin{figure}
\centering
\makebox[\columnwidth]{\input{try1.tikz}}
\makebox[\columnwidth]{\input{try2.tikz}}
\end{figure}
The files try1.tikz and try2.tikz ...
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How can I force the pgfplots coordinate system and the tikz coordinate system to match and why do they not match by default?
I plot a function with pgfplots and want to combine it with some simple \draw commands from tikz. But to my suprise the coordinate systems seem not to match. The rectangle drawn ranges from x=-10 up ...
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How to draw horizontal(row) legend without the surronding rectangle?
I found the following code to manually draw legend, but it produces vertical(column) legend. How to draw it horizontally? I don't want surrounding rectangle also.
\documentclass{article}
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How can I install pgfplots on the home directory with or without sudo rights?
I need to use some packages at my uni network so I can compile my projects there too but I am pretty sure it doesn't have pgfplots (from looking at the log) perhaps some others.
All the tutorials ...
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Does anyone know if the listed prerequisites for TikZ's pgfplots package are slightly off?
Does anyone (not to specifically ask Christian) know if the prerequisite PGF/TikZ version listed in the PGFPlots manual is off by a bit? I've been trying to use \tikzset{external/mode=list and make} ...
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How to generate a separate legend picture?
I want to generate a tikzpicture which only contains the legends, and not the plots themselves.
I use the following code and it returns an error: ! Package pgfplots Error: Sorry, the supplied plot ...
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How to ensure equal font sizes in all included TikZ/pgfplots figures?
I would like to have many tikzpictures in my document. Since each tikzpicture has its own size, I don't know how to manage the font size among all the pictures. Some of tikzpictures are of size ...
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How to switch x- and y-axes?
Is there a simple way to switch the x- and y-axes, so that the x-axis becomes the vertical axis?
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot+[domain=0:10]{1.2*0.000001*(0.2*(x*1000)^2 + 700*x*1000 + ...
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Problem in adjusting contour label color and numbr of samples in pgfplot
I am trying to create a contour plot using TikZ. I have two questions:
How can I change the contour labels color to all black?
Is it normal that gnuplot responds slow for creating smoother contour ...
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pgfplot — label, referencing and caption
I've the following pgfplot:
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
xlabel = Number of threads (\#),
ylabel = Task completion time (seconds),
...
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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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Grouped bar chart
I'm trying to construct a grouped bar chart and have three questions I can't seem to find the answer to:
1) How do I modify the spacings between the groups? Or at least make sure that no bars are ...
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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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Bounding box calculation in groupplots suddenly fails? [closed]
Suddenly some graphs changed in my documents. I have not the slightest idea what changed but as of today the bounding box calculation for some plots created in pgfplots is going haywire. My MWE looks ...
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Problem in increasing the distance between labels in contour plot in a TikZ picture
I am having problem in increasing the distance between the labels in a contour plot in a TikZ picture. I tried a value from 10 to 10000 for the key contour/label distanc just to have only one label on ...
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Multiple Labels on X coordinate when using symbolic coordinate [closed]
I am using pgfplots to plot bar charts; when I try to use symbolic labelling for the x coordinates, I get the labels repeating. Any ideas why, the snippet is below.
\begin{figure}[!h]
\centering
...
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Horizontal waterfall chart with labels for each bar
I've looked through similar questions here and here, but I'm still stuck. Basically what I'm trying to achieve is this plus bar labels:
I have two problems:
1) My code sucks. Right now the y-axis ...
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How to draw an additional line over an existing TikZ figure?
\documentclass[border=5mm] {standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots, pgfplotstable}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\pgfplotstableread{ % Read the data into a table macro
Label First Second ...
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Draw group line error
How draw group line works? I tryed to use this example, but when chaged the index it gives me an error:
Undefined control sequence \end{axis}
CODE:
\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
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How to plot circular polarized electromagnetic wave
I am searching for a solution to get nice looking circular polarized waves in my latex document. My goal is to get a graph that looks like this:
I do not want the graph to be animated but I can not ...
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Increase the X length of a tikzpicture [duplicate]
This is the code that i'm using (Thanks to percusse in here):
\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{lipsum} %<-- For dummy text
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.7}
...
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Tikzpicture in a two column way using a one column .cls template
I'm using a .cls IEEEtran from IEEE available here http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html; and all document is in two columns.
I'm ploting using pgfplots a ...
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Problem in modifying contour label style in pgfplots
I am trying to modify the contour label style in a TikZ picture. I would like to have the label values in the format 0.0 instead of being integers. The following code produces a picture in which ...
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Plotting functions with parameters from an external file using gnuplot/pgfplots/pgfplotstable
If I have a table, how can I get the table values and use them as parameters for plotting in pgfplots in gnuplot? In particular, how can multiple curves be plotted with the same functional form from ...
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Axis ticks in radians in polar pgfplots
I am using the polar library with pgfplots to plot a graph like this:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{polaraxis}
\addplot[mark = none, domain = 0.4:12, samples = 600, data cs = polarrad]{sin(x)};
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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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What does error bars/.cd do?
In pgfplots, if you want error bars, you have to write error bars/.cd into each addplot that should have error bars. What does it mean and what does it do and why do I need it?
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pgfplots - Provide a detailed plot inside the main plot
I have a main plot and inside it I would like to add a smaller plot that offers the reader a higher level of detail.
A rough illustration of the above is:
Notice that the smaller plot provides a ...
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PGFPLOTS coordinate filtering as a style?
I am using pgfplots to make plots for my thesis, and I have many scatter plots that I want to have consistent formatting. I am controlling the shape and color of the scatter plot marks with two ...
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biblatex and pgfplots
I'm using pgfplots to plot some graph of data I stored in a file (a lot of data points). If i charge the bibtex package and I obtains the famous error:
TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory ...
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In pgfplots, font=\small throws undefined control sequence [duplicate]
I would like to reduce the label font size in a pgfplot.
When I do x tick label style={rotate=90, anchor=east}, the file compiles, when I do x tick label style={font=\small,rotate=90, anchor=east}, ...
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Omitting a range when plotting with pgfplots [duplicate]
I have to plot data of the following format:
year,value1
-10000000,10
0,10
1890,10
1900,50
1930,500
1970,1500
2000,4000
Using standard pgfplots I do this:
\documentclass{article}
...
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Lines missing in the graph
The code
\pgfplotsset{mystyle/.style={mark=none}}
\begin{figure}[t!]
\resizebox{.4\textwidth}{!}{\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[title=QWS Dataset,
legend pos=outer north east,
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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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Axis label placement in 3d plot far out but why?
I want to plot a dataset in a 3D pgfplots graph. It looks like a good start but somehow the label placement is far out. Boiling it down to a MWE did not give me any hints how to get the labels back in ...
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Long yticklabels increase height of bar plot too much
With the help of Jake I'm able to create bar plots with variable heights ( Space between bars, height and width of the plot ). Some bar plots have single very long yticklabels that need line breaks. ...
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How can I integrate matplotlib plots with pgfplots?
The python plotting library matplotlib will by default add margins to any plot that it generates. They can be reduced to a certain degree through some options of savefig(), namely bbox_inches='tight' ...
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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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pgfplots data time format
I have this type of data set:
Time State
22:54:14.716 5
22:54:14.716 5
22:54:14.716 5
22:54:14.716 5
22:54:14.729 4
22:54:14.919 1
22:54:14.919 1
22:54:15.128 5
I ...
