Re: problem with plot / hold

[Ronald Crummett]

Matthias - 

If you are using two different plot windows to plot the data, you can 
always use the 'clf' command before plotting to the second window.  
This works in Matlab too.

-Ron



----- Original Message -----
From: Matthias Brennwald <address@hidden>
Date: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:35 am
Subject: problem with plot / hold
To: address@hidden

> Dear all,
> 
> I'm running Octave 2.1.72 and Mac OS X with gnuplot 4.0.
> 
> I want to plot three data sets in two plots (using subplot). The  
> first two data sets should appear in the same plot, whereas the 
> third  
> data set should appear in its own plot (without the other two data 
> 
> sets). Consider the following commands to plot the three (fake) 
> data  
> sets:
> 
> subplot(2,1,1);     % open up the first plot
> plot(rand(1,10));   % plot the first data set to the first plot
> hold on             % hold the plot
> plot(rand(1,10));   % plot the second data to the first plot
> subplot(2,1,2);     % open up the second plot
> plot(rand(1,10));   % plot the third data set to the second plot
> 
> In Matlab, these commands to exactly what I want. In Octave, 
> however,  
> the second plot contains all three data sets instead of only the  
> third set. I also tried to sepearate the plots into two different 
> X11  
> windows instead of two subplots (using 'figure(1)' and 'figure(2)' 
> 
> instead of the subplot commands above). Same problem.
> 
> Where's my mistake?
> 
> Is there a way to make my code 'universal' such that it runs as  
> intended both with Matlab and Octave?
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
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