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plh: Plot a Histogram

Calling Sequence
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plh(y, [x, labels, <keylist>])

Description
Draws a histogram, where the height of the bars is given by Y. If X is None, the bars in the histogram have a width equal to unity. If X is a single real number, it is interpreted as the width of the bars. If X is a one- dimensional array with an equal number of elements as the Y array, then X is interpreted as the widths of the bars. In all of these cases, the histogram starts at the origin. However, if X is a one-dimensional array with one element more than Y, then X is interpreted as the locations of the start and end points of the bars in the histogram. If X is a one-dimensional array with twice as many elements as Y, then X represents the start and end points for each bar separately.

The keyword color is either a single color to fill the bars with, or a list of colors, one for each bar. If the keyword labels is given, then the horizontal tick marks and numerical labels are switched off. The keyword labels should then consist of a list of strings, with the same number of elements as Y. These labels are drawn below the horizontal axis.

To switch the tick marks and labels back on for subsequent plots, you can execute

window(style="work.gs")
which will reset the window to the usual work.gs style sheet.

Keyword Arguments

width, hide, color


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Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon 2003-04-19