[vox-tech] Histograms on GNU/Linux?

Bill Broadley bill at cse.ucdavis.edu
Tue Oct 26 14:37:20 PDT 2004


ppmhist, very easy to use.  Try man ppmhist

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:13:04PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> I have a few numbers in OpenOffice that I'd like to make a histogram of.
> 
> It appears that OO has no histogram plotter.  Gnuplot doesn't seem to have
> one either (there appears to be a patch, but I'd rather not go down that road
> unless I have to).
> 
> It appears that Gnumeric can do histograms, but when I tried...
> 
>    p at satan$ gnumeric 
> 
>    ** (gnumeric:5072): WARNING **: GnomePrint: Requested Arial1 but using Sans
>    (Sans Regular 9.000000)
>    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>    p at satan$ 
> 
> Note the warning had nothing to do with the segfault AFAIK.
> 
> How do people do histograms on Linux (other than than by hand?)  I'd prefer
> suggestions that people USE rather than a mindless response invoking
> freshmeat.  I wanna be able to ask you a question if I have one.  ;-)
> 
> Pete
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Bill Broadley
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