Re: [ROOT] Help plotting a simple graph

From: Maxim Nikulin (nikulin@gorodok.net)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 11:08:54 MEST


Dear Marieke,

You wrote:
> Can anyone offer advice for my simple graph? I have 3 columns of data: x, 
> y1 and y2. I want to plot x versus y1 and x versus y2 (dashed line) on 
> the same graph but at present it's only plotting the a versus y1. I know 
> it's something simple,

My 2 cent to Rene's explanation. You can read data points with
TGraph::TGraph(const char *filename, const char *format = "%lg %lg)
constructor.

inputSec = new TGraph("width_6face.dat");
inputSec2 = new TGraph("width_6face.dat", "%lg%*lg%lg");

-- 
Maxim Nikulin

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> // code for plotting Optical Beacon pulse widths graphs
> 
> // Marieke Navin - September 2004
> 
> {
>   gROOT->Reset();                       // reset global variables
>   
>   gStyle->SetCanvasColor(10);
>   gStyle->SetFrameFillColor(10);
>   gStyle->SetOptStat(0);
>   
>   ifstream data;                        // declare a file to input from
>   data.open("width_6face.dat");   // open different files containing values
>  
> 
> //const Int_t n = 25;                        // number of points to be plotted
> const Int_t n = 6; 
>   //careful with no of points!
> 
>  Float_t x[n], y1[n], y2[n];
> 
>   
>   for(Int_t i=0;i<n;i++){
>     data>>x[i]>>y1[i]>>y2[i];
>   }
> 
>   for (Int_t i=0; i<n; i++)
>     {
>       cout << x[i] << " " << y1[i] <<" " << y2[i] << endl;
>     }
>   
>   TGraph* inputSpec = new TGraph(n, x, y1); //change for title as necessary
>   TGraph* inputSpec2 = new TGraph(n, x, y2);
> 
>  
> inputSpec->SetTitle("Amplitude measured on internal and external PMTs (6 Faces 15/465)");
>   inputSpec->GetXaxis()->SetTitle("Angle (degrees)");
>   inputSpec->GetYaxis()->SetTitle("Amplitude (mV)");
> 
>   inputSpec->SetName("6face");
>   inputSpec->Draw("AC");
>   
>   inputSpec2->SetLineStyle(kDashDotted);
>   inputSpec2->Draw("CP");
> }
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 0	7.02	6.38
> 10	7.04	6.38
> 20	7.03	6.38
> 30	7.04	6.40
> 40	7.05	6.40
> 50	7.06	6.42



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