Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ vertical chart

[krislodz]

Is it possible to create vertical or horizontal charts in Latex? Something like this:

BarChartExampleHorizontal.PNG (4.68 KiB) Viewed 9602 times

[fatra2]

Just like that, let's say as easily as you would in Excel, NO!!!

You can always make a figure in LaTeX, but to do what you have in attachment would take you forever to make, and it would be static.

Therefore, you are better of in other software, and include it in your text document.

Cheers

[localghost]

Therefore, you are better of in other software, and include it in your text document.

I sometimes wonder where you get your insights from.

Is it possible to create vertical or horizontal charts in Latex? Something like this […]

This can be done very easy with datatool, pgfplots (based on pgf/tikZ) or pstricks. You may take a look at example galleries [1,2]. I'm sure you will find what you need and get along with it.

[1] TikZ and PGF examples
[2] /PSTricks/Examples/Charts/chart


Best regards
Thorsten

[yago]

See the attached file. This is the file graphs.dat:

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5, 1, 9, 4, 8, 3, 2, 5

[krislodz]

yago, very very nice. i cannot use pdflatex on it, so I guess I have to include eps generated to my document?

[localghost]

[…] i cannot use pdflatex on it, so I guess I have to include eps generated to my document?

Include the (auto-)pst-pdf package. It lets you compile pstricks code with the pdflatex compiler engine. Pay special attention to the hints in the manual about shell escape (forum search).

[krislodz]

It is compiling, however only the chart is included, without the surrounding text on the axes

[localghost]

By now you should know that without a minimal working example (MWE) it becomes very difficult to give further help.

[krislodz]

Example is the same code snippet that was considered only with auto-pstpdf package and -shell-escape latexpdf switch. graphs.dat stays the same :
,,,,,,,
5, 1, 9, 4, 8, 3, 2, 5

Current graphs.tex:

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\documentclass[spanish]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}


\usepackage{ifplatform}
\usepackage{pst-pdf}
\usepackage{xkeyval}
\usepackage[crop=off]{auto-pst-pdf}

\deactivatetilden
\usepackage{pst-bar,pst-all,pstricks-add}
\begin{document}
\psset{xunit=1cm,yunit=1cm}%
\renewcommand*\psbarlabelsep{50pt}
\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(10,9)%
\psgrid[yunit=1cm,gridlabels=0,subgriddiv=0,griddots=30](0,0)(10,8.1)%
\psaxes[labels=all,ticks=x](0,0)(10,9)%
\readpsbardata{\graphs}{graphs.dat}%
\psbarchart[labelFontSize=2pt,shadow=true,barstyle=blue,barcolsep=0.3,orientation=horizontal]{\graphs}%
\rput(-1.4,7.5){Scatter Graphs}
\rput(-1.7,6.5){Frequency Polygon}
\rput(-1.25,5.5){Line Graphs}
\rput(-1.75,4.5){Comp. Pie Graphs}
\rput(-1.2,3.5){Pictograms}
\rput(-1.2,2.5){Histograms}
\rput(-1.2,1.5){Pie Graphs}
\rput(-1.2,0.5){Bar Charts}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}

[localghost]

It works for me without any option for auto-pst-pdf.