Re: gnuplot error message "skipping data file with no valid points - x range is invalid"

Hans-Bernhard Bröker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.gnuplot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 24.06.2019 um 23:04 schrieb aflint414:
> so i was attempting to make a simple graph. i made the graph successfully but
> it was only when i attempted to export it per some website's instructions
> that things started going south.

That's because ypu either mis-applied those instructions, or they were
horrificially bad.

> gnuplot> set output "file.dat"
> gnuplot> replot
>          warning: Skipping data file with no valid points
> 
> gnuplot> plot "file.dat" using 1:2 pt 7 ps 2

You've now named the _same_ file as text data input, _and_ GIF-format
output.  That cannot possibly do what you wanted.


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