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{{Short description|Command-line plotting program}}

{{distinguish|plotutils}}

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The name of this program was originally chosen to avoid conflicts with a program called "newplot", and was originally a compromise between "llamaplot" and "nplot".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/faq.html#SECTION00032000000000000000|title=gnuplot FAQ|website=Gnuplot.info|access-date=27 June 2022}}</ref>

Support of Epidemic daily and week formats in Version 5.4.2 is a result of pandemic coronavirus data needs.<ref>[http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/ReleaseNotes_5_4_2.html] {{dead link|date=June 2022}}</ref>

Development Version 5.5 is 2021 available.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gnuplot.info/docs_5.5/Gnuplot_5_5.pdf|format=PDF|title=gnuplot {{Bare5.5 URL: PDFAn Interactive Plotting Program : Thomas Williams & Colin Kelley|website=Gnuplot.info|access-date=March27 June 2022}}</ref>

== Distribution terms ==

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* [http://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot feedgnuplot] provides a plotting of stored and realtime data from a pipe.

* ElchemeaAnalytical,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elchemea.com/|title=Elchemea Analytical|website=Elchemea.com|access-date=27 June 2022}}</ref> an [[Impedance spectroscopy]] plotting and fitting program developed by DTU Energy<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.energy.dtu.dk/english|title = DTU Energy|website=Energy.dtu.dk}}</ref>

* Gnuplot add-in for M-S Excel<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot-add-in-for-excel/|title=GnuPlot Add-in for Excel|website=Sourceforge.net|access-date=27 June 2022}}</ref>

* Calc, the [[GNU Emacs]] calculator<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gillespie |first1=Dave |title=The GNU Emacs Calculator |url=https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Graphics.html#Graphics |website=www.gnu.org |publisher=Free Software Foundation, Inc. |access-date=13 November 2020 |page=Graphics}}</ref>

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== Gnuplot output formats ==

Gnuplot allows you to display or store plots in several ways:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gnuplot.info/|title=gnuplot homepage|website=Gnuplot.info|access-date=27 June 2022}}</ref><ref>[http://fm137.ugr.es/imnf/descargas/archivos/manual-gnuplot.pdf] {{Baredead URL PDFlink|date=MarchJune 2022}}</ref>

*On the console (output modes dumb, sixel)

*In a desktop window (output modes qt, wxt, x11, aquaterm, win, ...)

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== See also ==

{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}

* [[List of graphing software]]

== References ==

{{Reflist|30em}}

== Further reading and external links ==

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{{Wikibooks|gnuplot}}

{{Wikibooks|Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line|Quick Plotting With gnuplot}}

* {{Official website}}

* {{SourceForge|gnuplot}}