Sharing with Plotshare
This section will explain how to get graphs from gnuplot even if you don't have gnuplot installed.
How to do it…
Go to http://www.plotshare.com/. You will find a web page with a box near the top. Enter a gnuplot script in the box and click the execute button, and you will get the same result as if you had run the script through gnuplot on your own machine. You can even upload datafiles to be saved on the server and plotted.
In addition to providing graphing services, this website is designed so you can share your gnuplot scripts with others and work on them collaboratively. You can click on the recent tab to see the scripts and resulting output submitted by other users, which can be a fun and interesting way to learn about the program.
The previous screenshot shows what the recent section of the Plotshare website looks like.
How it works…
Because gnuplot is a C program with the ability to use the filesystem, execute system commands, and do other powerful and dangerous things...
