I am plotting with pgfplots a plot with error bars with the following code:
\documentclass[12pt,twoside, a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.6}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[xmin=0,xmax=5,ymin=0,ymax=4,
enlargelimits=false,axis on top=true,xlabel=$x$,ylabel=$y$]
%Add first Data
\addplot[color=blue,thick,only marks,mark=*]
plot[/pgfplots/error bars/.cd,x dir=none,y dir=both,y explicit,
error mark=-,error bar style={color=blue}]
table[x=xValue1,y=yValue1, y error=Deltay1] {TableForErrorBarQuestion.txt};
%Add second Data
\addplot[color=red,thick,only marks,mark=*]
plot[/pgfplots/error bars/.cd,x dir=none,y dir=both,y explicit,
error mark=-,error bar style={color=red}]
table[x=xValue2,y=yValue2, y error=Deltay2] {TableForErrorBarQuestion.txt};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
As you can see from the screenshot, this works quite fine.
But I want to have all parts of my red error bars in the foreground (on the top layer). I thought this would work if I add my red data points after the blue one in the code – but unfortunately this does not work. I would be happy if someone of you could give me a hint!
Here is the data I am using in my example.
xValue1 yValue1 Deltay1 xValue2 yValue2 Deltay2
1 1.918332609 1.048808848 1 1.818332609 0.524404424
2 1.886796226 1.048808848 2 1.386796226 0.524404424
3 1.954482029 1.048808848 3 1.854482029 0.524404424
4 1.939071943 1.048808848 4 1.839071943 0.524404424