NAME
d.linegraph - Generates and displays simple line graphs in the active graphics monitor display frame.
KEYWORDS
display,
cartography
SYNOPSIS
d.linegraph
d.linegraph --help
d.linegraph [-xysl] x_file=string y_file=string[,string,...] [directory=string] [y_color=string[,string,...]] [color_table=style] [width=integer[,integer,...]] [title_color=string] [x_title=string] [y_title=string] [title=string] [y_range=min,max] [y_tics=float[,float,...]] [x_scale=float] [y_scale=float] [icon=string] [point_size=float] [secondary_color=name] [secondary_width=float[,float,...]] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]
Flags:
- -x
- Scale only X labels, not values
- -y
- Scale only Y labels, not values
- -s
- Draw points
- -l
- Do not draw lines
- --help
- Print usage summary
- --verbose
- Verbose module output
- --quiet
- Quiet module output
- --ui
- Force launching GUI dialog
Parameters:
- x_file=string [required]
- Name of data file for X axis of graph
- y_file=string[,string,...] [required]
- Name of data file(s) for Y axis of graph
- directory=string
- Path to files
- Path to the directory where the input files are located
- y_color=string[,string,...]
- Color for Y data
- color_table=style
- Name of color table
- Options: aspect, aspectcolr, bcyr, bgyr, blues, byg, byr, celsius, corine, curvature, differences, elevation, etopo2, evi, fahrenheit, forest_cover, gdd, grass, greens, grey, grey.eq, grey.log, grey1.0, grey255, gyr, haxby, inferno, kelvin, magma, ndvi, ndwi, nlcd, oranges, plasma, population, population_dens, precipitation, precipitation_daily, precipitation_monthly, rainbow, ramp, random, reds, roygbiv, rstcurv, ryb, ryg, sepia, slope, soilmoisture, srtm, srtm_plus, terrain, viridis, water, wave
- aspect: aspect oriented grey colors [range: map values]
- aspectcolr: aspect oriented rainbow colors [range: 0 to 360]
- bcyr: blue through cyan through yellow to red [range: map values]
- bgyr: blue through green through yellow to red [range: map values]
- blues: white to blue [range: map values]
- byg: blue through yellow to green [range: map values]
- byr: blue through yellow to red [range: map values]
- celsius: blue to red for degree Celsius temperature [range: -80 to 80]
- corine: EU Corine land cover colors [range: 111 to 995]
- curvature: for terrain curvatures (from v.surf.rst and r.slope.aspect) [range: map values]
- differences: differences oriented colors [range: map values]
- elevation: maps relative ranges of raster values to elevation color ramp [range: map values]
- etopo2: colors for ETOPO2 worldwide bathymetry/topography [range: -11000 to 8850]
- evi: enhanced vegetative index colors [range: -1 to 1]
- fahrenheit: blue to red for Fahrenheit temperature [range: -112 to 176]
- forest_cover: percentage of forest cover [range: 0 to 100]
- gdd: accumulated growing degree days [range: 0 to 6000]
- grass: GRASS GIS green (perceptually uniform) [range: map values]
- greens: white to green [range: map values]
- grey: grey scale [range: map values]
- grey.eq: histogram-equalized grey scale [range: map values]
- grey.log: histogram logarithmic transformed grey scale [range: map values]
- grey1.0: grey scale for raster values between 0.0-1.0 [range: 0 to 1]
- grey255: grey scale for raster values between 0-255 [range: 0 to 255]
- gyr: green through yellow to red [range: map values]
- haxby: relative colors for bathymetry or topography [range: map values]
- inferno: perceptually uniform sequential color table inferno [range: map values]
- kelvin: blue to red for temperature in Kelvin scale [range: 193.15 to 353.15]
- magma: perceptually uniform sequential color table magma [range: map values]
- ndvi: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index colors [range: -1 to 1]
- ndwi: Normalized Difference Water Index colors [range: -200 to 200]
- nlcd: US National Land Cover Dataset colors [range: 0 to 95]
- oranges: white to orange [range: map values]
- plasma: perceptually uniform sequential color table plasma [range: map values]
- population: color table covering human population classification breaks [range: 0 to 2e+09]
- population_dens: color table covering human population density classification breaks [range: 0 to 1e+09]
- precipitation: precipitation color table (0..2000mm) [range: 0 to 7000]
- precipitation_daily: precipitation color table (0..1000mm) [range: 0 to 10000]
- precipitation_monthly: precipitation color table (0..1000mm) [range: 0 to 1000]
- rainbow: rainbow color table [range: map values]
- ramp: color ramp [range: map values]
- random: random color table [range: map values]
- reds: white to red [range: map values]
- roygbiv: [range: map values]
- rstcurv: terrain curvature (from r.resamp.rst) [range: map values]
- ryb: red through yellow to blue [range: map values]
- ryg: red through yellow to green [range: map values]
- sepia: yellowish-brown through to white [range: map values]
- slope: r.slope.aspect-type slope colors for raster values 0-90 [range: 0 to 90]
- soilmoisture: soilmoisture color table (0.0-1.0) [range: 0 to 1]
- srtm: color palette for Shuttle Radar Topography Mission elevation [range: -11000 to 8850]
- srtm_plus: color palette for Shuttle Radar Topography Mission elevation (with seafloor colors) [range: -11000 to 8850]
- terrain: global elevation color table covering -11000 to +8850m [range: -11000 to 8850]
- viridis: perceptually uniform sequential color table viridis [range: map values]
- water: water depth [range: map values]
- wave: color wave [range: map values]
- width=integer[,integer,...]
- Width of the lines
- title_color=string
- Color for axis, tics, numbers, and title
- Default: black
- x_title=string
- Title for X data
- Default:
- y_title=string
- Title for Y data
- Default:
- title=string
- Title for Graph
- Default:
- y_range=min,max
- Minimum and maximum value for Y axis (min,max)
- y_tics=float[,float,...]
- Tic values for the Y axis
- x_scale=float
- Scale for X values
- y_scale=float
- Scale for Y values
- icon=string
- Symbol for point
- Options: basic/arrow, basic/arrow1, basic/arrow2, basic/arrow3, basic/box, basic/circle, basic/cross1, basic/cross2, basic/cross3, basic/diamond, basic/hexagon, basic/marker, basic/octagon, basic/pin, basic/pin_dot, basic/point, basic/pushpin, basic/star, basic/triangle, basic/x, demo/muchomurka, demo/smrk, extra/4pt_star, extra/adcp, extra/airport, extra/alpha_flag, extra/bridge, extra/dim_arrow, extra/dive_flag, extra/fiducial, extra/fish, extra/half-box, extra/half-circle, extra/offbox_ne, extra/offbox_nw, extra/offbox_se, extra/offbox_sw, extra/pentagon, extra/ping, extra/ring, extra/simple_zia, extra/target, geology/circle_cross, geology/half-arrow_left, geology/half-arrow_right, geology/strike_box, geology/strike_circle, geology/strike_cleavage, geology/strike_half-bowtie, geology/strike_line, geology/strike_parallel, geology/strike_triangle, legend/area, legend/area_curved, legend/line, legend/line_crooked, n_arrows/basic_compass, n_arrows/fancy_compass, n_arrows/n_arrow1a, n_arrows/n_arrow1b, n_arrows/n_arrow2, n_arrows/n_arrow3, n_arrows/n_arrow4, n_arrows/n_arrow5, n_arrows/n_arrow6, n_arrows/n_arrow7a, n_arrows/n_arrow7b, n_arrows/n_arrow8a, n_arrows/n_arrow8b, n_arrows/n_arrow9
- Default: basic/circle
- point_size=float
- Point size
- Default: 5
- secondary_color=name
- Color
- Color for point symbol edge color
- Default: black
- secondary_width=float[,float,...]
- Width of point symbol lines
- Default: 0.1
d.linegraph is a module to draw simple x,y line graphs
(plots) based on numerical data contained in separate files.
The X and Y data files for the graph are essentially a column of numbers in
each file, with one input number per line. The program expects that each X
value will have a corresponding Y value, therefore the number of lines in
each data input file should be the same. Essentially, the X data becomes
the X axis reference to which the Y data is plotted as a line. Therefore,
the X data should be a monotonically increasing progression of numbers (i.e.
"1,2,3,..."; "0, 10, 100, 1000,..."; "...-5,-1,0,1,5..."). If multiple Y
data files are used, the Y axis scale will be based on the range of minimum
and maximum values from all Y files, then all Y data given will be graphed
according to that Y scale. Therefore, if multiple Y data inputs are used
with dissimilar units, the graph produced comparing the two will be
deceptive.
If the
directory option is provided, the paths to files can (and
should) be only relative paths to these files. While this is not recommended
for scripting, it can be advantageous when typing the paths
manually. For example when all files are stored in the directory
/home/john/data, the user can provide the following in the command
line:
d.linegraph directory=/home/john/data x_file=x.txt y_file=y1.txt,y2.txt
The user can specify the
y_color option, the
color_table
option or just leave the defaults to influence the color of the
plotted lines.
Colors specified by y_color option are used for drawing the lines
in the graph. If multiple Y data files are used, an equal number of
colors may be used to control the colors of the lines. Colors will be
assigned to Y data in respect to the sequence of instantiation on the
command line. It can be one of GRASS GIS named colors or the RGB
values from 0-255 separated by colons (RRR:GGG:BBB).
Alternatively, the user can use the color_table option to specify one
of the GRASS GIS predefined color tables.
By default, a series of colors will be chosen by the module if none are
provided upon invocation. The order of default colors is red, green,
violet, blue, orange, gray, brown, magenta, white, and indigo. The user is
advised not to rely on the order of default colors but to either use the
y_color or the color_table option to obtain predictable and
reproducible results.
The color to be used for titles, axis lines, tics, and scale numbers
is determined by the title_color option. The user can provide
one of the GRASS GIS named colors (such as gray, white, or black)
or use the GRASS GIS colon-separated format for RGB (RRR:GGG:BBB).
The
title option specifies the text for the title of the graph.
It will be centered over the top of graph.
The
x_title option is a text to describe data for X axis. It will be
centered beneath the graph. Default is no text unless there is a need
for a unit descriptor determined by the
d.linegraph module,
then string such as "in hundreds" is generated.
The
y_title option is a text to describe data for Y axis. It
will be centered beneath the X data description. Similarly, to the
x_title option, default is no text unless there is a need for an
auto-generated description. In the case of graphs with multiple lines
(multiple inputs for Y axis), user may wish to use more specific text
placement using the
d.text or
v.label programs.
For historical reasons, the
d.linegraph module accepts
titles of more than one word where the underscore character ("_")
is used to represent spaces (" "). For example "Census_data_1990" would be
printed over the graph as "Census data 1990". The use of underscores is not
necessary to use as long as the parameter is quoted in the command line.
In general, use of underscores is not recommended and there is no need to use
it at all in the GUI or when using
d.linegraph in Python scripts.
The way the program locates and labels tic marks is less than perfect:
1) although distances between Y tics are proportional to the value, they are
not proportional on the X axis;
2) decimal values between -1 and 1 can be printed on the X axis, but not
on Y. (With respect to the later, the input for Y values can all be
multiplied by a factor of 10 before graphing).
Depending on the user's needs, it might be easier or more appropriate
to use a 3rd party tool such as xgraph, gnuplot, Matplotlib in Python,
or R instead of d.linegraph.
For a more general solution for plotting in GRASS GIS, the user is
advised to use the d.graph module.
The following can be executed in Bash to create the input data for this
example. The user can just create these files in a text editor, save
them and specify path to them.
cat > x.txt <<EOF
1
3
4
6
9
EOF
cat > y1.txt <<EOF
50
58
65
34
27
EOF
cat > y2.txt <<EOF
10
20
35
50
45
EOF
The next command sequence creates a file plot.png in the current
directory which is the drawing made by d.linegraph.
d.mon start=cairo output=plot.png width=400 height=400
d.linegraph x_file=x.txt y_file=y1.txt,y2.txt
d.mon stop=cairo
d.frame,
d.text,
v.label,
d.graph,
d.histogram
Chris Rewerts, Agricultural Engineering, Purdue University
SOURCE CODE
Available at:
d.linegraph source code
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Latest change: Monday Feb 27 13:45:25 2023 in commit: a82501dc85294207e8e58437c3ec7f1056465ed4
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