Re: [Gretl-devel] Gnuplot jitter

Am 10.10.2018 um 12:04 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > > Gnuplot 5.2 has introduced the "set jitter" command, which I think > could be quite nice to incorporate in our plot/gnuplot command combo. > Just to show you what the "jitter" thing is about, I prepared a little > script, where we plot log wage versus educational level from the Mroz > dataset: Very nice, I wasn't aware of it. Comment the "square" option, and you even get a nice swarm-plot. <hansl> plot X     option fit=none     literal set jitter spread 0.1 #square end plot --output=display </hansl> > I was thinking we could have a --jitter option (possibly with > parameters) to the gnuplot command; I would even think it could be a > good idea to have this on by default is the x-axis series is discrete. > OTOH, one may argue that the same effects is achieved quite easily via > a literal, as in my previous example, and the gnuplot commmand is > already loaded with lots of options and we don't need a new one. I am in favor of the literal-type of option, as it seems to be more flexible, e.g. jitter- vs. swarm-like plot. By the way, is there a simple option to replace the crosses by dots? "literal set style data point" doesn't work.