{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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Pattern in \addplot inherits dashed option from previous \draw
I want to fill the area between two curves with a pattern, let's say horizontal line.
Since I want some other dashed lines below these curves, I use \draw[dashed] and then \addplot[pattern=horizontal ...
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error while converting surf error to tikz
I have used matlab2tikz to convert a figure from matlab to tikz, but while compiling it gives following errors
main.tex:170 Package pgfplots Error: No such element:
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Draw a cylindrical spiral with TikZ
I want to make a tikzpicture to illustrate the construction of a spiral capacitor.
These are made of spiral coiled films. So imagine a rectangular paper that you tail around one side. Thats basically ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to reuse the plotmark styles from PGFPlots outside the tikzpicture environment?
In a figure caption or in the main text I want to reuse the style of the plotmarks or the combination of line and symbol as in the figure legend. As I did not find a command to reuse the legend image ...
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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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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 a higher level of detail.
A rough illustration of the above is:
Notice that the smaller plot provides a more ...
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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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Simpler boxplots in pgfplots - is this possible?
When I wanted to plot boxplots in pgfplots, I started using the solution proposed by Jake in the question linked to above. However, as I wanted to plot more than one set of boxplots in the same figure ...
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Can I use pgfplots to make a boxplot
My current plotting tool for my papers is pgfplots for nice consistent plots. Now I would like to add a boxplot. Is this possible with help of pgfplots, or any helper package?
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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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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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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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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, 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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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 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: 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 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 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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Is there a workaround against loss of precision in pgfplots axis?
I am generating a bunch of plots automatically using pgfplots. For some datasets the span of data in one axis (y) is relatively small (relative to the absolute value) and therefore pgfplots when ...
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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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How to generate stem plots with TikZ like stem() in Matlab?
Given a set of (x,y) coordinates stored in a file, how could I generate a stem plot from those coordinates? I would like to achieve something similar as the matlab's stem function: ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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ticks disappearing for diverging (out of range) plots
my xticks disappear for some plots even though I explicitly ask for them. Here is my MWE. The function goes to -infinity at the right border of the interval.
\documentclass{article}
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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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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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LaTeX - PGF groupplot - polar axis
I can't find the answer anywhere, is it [and how] possible to make a group plot of multiple polar graphs? For grouping, I use pgf.groupplot library, for polar axis, I use \begin{polaraxis} from pgf ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
