Thanks, set terminal did the trick cheers M
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Marvin Doyley <marvin...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I am planning to use gnuplot to plot some data that I have in org > table. > > > Everything is set-up correctly and gnuplot is installed my mac. > > > Unfortunately, when I run the following org file I get a zero byte file > -- > > > everything seems to run ok, except nothing is written to the output > file. > > > Does anybody know what I am doing wrong ? > > > > > <snip> > > > > > so if your gnuplot is like my gnuplot then "eps" is not a known terminal > > type. I'd suggest trying the following. Also, notice that I changed > > your "plot" line -- histograms are not intuitive in gnuplot. > > > > <snip> > > > > > #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=gnuplot-testing :file output.eps :exports > both > > set term postscript > > set title "test" > > set auto x > > set style data histogram > > set style fill solid border -1 > > set boxwidth 0.9 > > plot data using 2:xtic(1) > > #+end_src > > > > Shameless plug: this and more is available at the orgmode gnuplot > babel documentation on Worg. Check it out if you're interested. > --- Top level: > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-gnuplot.html > --- This in particular (generating eps files): > > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-gnuplot.html#sec-7_2 >
