Hi All,

I've been trying to find a graphing package that can generate a graph of non uniform points that have bars/lines down to the x axis.
Below is an example with real data using the Chart::Plot package, the resulting graph has the points marked. Do any of you know off a package that has an option to do this. You get a bonus point if it works on a win32 machine. I've looked at the GD::Graph package and the DBD::Chart::Plot (no easy install by ActiveState perl, its possible that the candlestick feature may work if the ymin vales are all set to 0 and the max values to the y value) as well but neither of them seem to do what I want right of the bat.

An alternative would be to create a graph and then modify the graphic image but I'm looking for an easier method if there is one.

Richard 

 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use GD::Graph::lines;
#my @xdataset = qw(791.312 809.298 825.259 842.510 855.028 861.120 870
+.554 870.977 877.036 893.436 1060.006 1066.030 1081.967 1270.989 2211
+.105 2225.178 2239.090);
#my @ydataset = qw(1383.8 1863.9 1247   2191.4 2101.2 624.96 552.55 10
+50.3 690.71 538.11 705.84 566.41 397.68 133.13 158.5 91.587 82.42);

 @data = (
   ["100","2nd","3rd","4th","5th","6th","7th", "8th", "9th"],
   [    100,    200,    500,    600,    300,  150,    101,     301,   
+  401],
   [ sort { $a <=> $b } (105, 205, 505, 605, 305, 155, 106, 306, 406) 
+]
 );
 my $graph = GD::Graph::lines->new(400, 300);
$graph->set(
     x_label           => 'Day',
     y_label           => 'No. Attacks',
     title             => 'Number of Worm attacks per day by type',
     y_max_value       => 8,
     y_tick_number     => 1,
     y_label_skip      => 2
);
my $gd = $graph->plot(\@data);
#chdir "d:";
#chdir "d:/http/Pics";
open(IMG, '>days.png') or die $!;
binmode IMG;
print IMG $gd->png;

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In reply to Graphing non uniform data as bar charts by lostcause

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