Gnuplot task

2022, Nov 10 One min read

Gnuplot task

Description

Task to process gnuplot, a portable command-line driven graphing utility (see: gnuplot.info/ ).

Installation

$ apt-get install gnuplot

Gnuplot task parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
file	The input file	yes
tofile	The output file	no: .png by default
title	The graph title	no
using	The column to use	no
xlabel	The x label	no
ylabel	The y label	no

Examples

Generate burndown chart with gnuplot

<project name="gnuplot task">
	<taskdef name="gnuplot"
		classname="net.sourceforge.ant4x.taskdefs.doc.GnuplotTask"
		classpath="PATH/TO/ant4x.jar"/>
	
	<target name="gen-burndownchart-with-gnuplot">
		<delete dir="datas/gnuplot"/>
		<mkdir dir="datas/gnuplot"/>	
		<echo file="datas/gnuplot/input.csv" append="false">time;points
0;60
1;50
2;45
3;38
4;32
5;25
6;22
7;18
8;12
9;8
10;3
</echo>
		<x:gnuplot file="datas/gnuplot/input.csv" title="Burndown chart" using="1:2 with lines" xlabel="Iterations" ylabel="Effort"/>
	</target>
</project>