Plotting

[Ben Abbott]

On May 31, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Bill McBride wrote:

>> On May 31, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Bill McBride wrote:
>>
>>> I am using Octave -3.0.1 on an IMac.  It runs on the terminal ,  
>>> which
>>> uses Bash as its shell script..  My problem is that the plot does  
>>> noy
>>> work  I get sh: gnuplot: command not found.back as an error message.
>>> 	How do I get plotting commands to work?  Are there other files I  
>>> need
>>> to download and install?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help
>>> Bill McBride
>>
>> You'll need to install gnuplot.app.
>>
>> Usually gnuplot will be installed along with Octave. Thus, it is  
>> likely you already have gnuplot installed, but Octave doesn't see  
>> it. How did you install Octave?
>>
>> Ben
>>
>
> Ben,
>
> 	 I down loaded a copy from the octave site and then followed the  
> directions.  I didn't make ant changes to the config file, however.
> On May 31, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>

By "Octave site" do you refer to http://octave.sourceforge.net/ ?

If so you should have the app built by Thomas Treichl which also  
include gnuplot. In the octave.app.dmg is an "Extras" folder. In that  
folder you will find "gnuplot-4.2.3-i386.dmg" (assuming you have an  
Intel based Mac).

Please refer to "Do I have to install Gnuplot.app from the Extras  
directory?" in the "Readme.html" file which you'll find in  
octave.app.dmg.

Thomas has included a lot of good info in that Readme file. I  
encourage you to browse through it.

Ben

p.s. please "reply all" so that this discussion is recorded for the  
benefit of others who may, in the future, have similar questions. TiA