> What is a box plot? How is that different from y- vs x-axis diagrams?
> Whenever I plot anything with maxima and gnuplot, I get nice x vs y
> graphs that I would expect. Something like (very crude ASCII graphics
> here)
>
>
> y-label
> 2 + ...............
> | .
> | .
> 1 + .
> |
> |
> 0 +-----+-----+-----+-----+--
> 0 1 2 3 4
box plot:
y 2 +--------------------------------+
| : |
1 + . |
| . |
0 + . |
| . |
-1 + . |
|. |
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
x
> Anyway, you can use plot2d_ps for now if you really want postscript
> output.
It seems you can't set any y-Range in this, can you?
> And actually, if you're just plotting functions, using gnuplot is an
> excellent way to do that as well for functions gnuplot knows about.
True, but it uses another different syntax.
Regards,
Uli.