Graphics

Graph types

plotACF	Plots the autocorrelations function (ACF).
plotArea	Creates a cumulative area plot.
plotBar	Creates a bar plot.
plotBarH	Creates a horizontal bar plot.
plotBox	Creates a box plot.
plotCDFEmpirical	Creates a cumulative distribution function (cdf) of the empirical distribution plot.
plotContour	Creates a contour plot.
plotFreq	Calculates and plots the frequencies of categorical variables.
plotHist	Calculates and creates a frequency histogram plot.
plotHistF	Creates a histogram plot from a vector of frequencies.
plotHistP	Calculates and creates a percentage frequency histogram plot.
plotLogLog	Creates a 2-dimensional line plot with logarithmic scaling of the both the x and y axes.
plotLogX	Creates a 2-dimensional line plot with logarithmic scaling of the x-axis.
plotLogY	Creates a 2-dimensional line plot with logarithmic scaling of the y-axis.
plotPACF	Plots the partial autocorrelations function (PACF).
plotPolar	Creates a polar plot.
plotScatter	Creates a 2-dimensional scatter plot.
plotSurface	Creates a 3-dimensional surface plot.
plotTS	Creates a graph of time series data.
plotTSHF	Plots high-frequency and irregularly spaced time series data.
plotTSLog	Creates a graph of time series data with the y-axis on a log scale.
plotXY	Creates a 2-dimensional line plot.
plotXYFill	Creates an area plot between sets of lines.

Add data to existing graphs

plotAddArea	Adds a cumulative area plot to an existing 2-D graph.
plotAddBar	Adds a bar or a set of bars to an existing 2-D graph.
plotAddBarH	Adds a horizontal bar or a set of horizontal bars to an existing 2-D graph.
plotAddErrorBar	Adds error bars to an existing 2-D graph.
plotAddBox	Adds a box plot to an existing 2-D graph.
plotAddHist	Adds a histogram to an existing 2-D graph.
plotAddHistF	Adds a frequency histogram to an existing 2-D graph.
plotAddHistP	Adds a percent frequency histogram to an existing 2-D graph.
plotAddPolar	Adds a graph using polar coordinates to an existing polar graph.
plotAddScatter	Adds a set of points to an existing 2-D graph.
plotAddSurface	Adds a surface plot to an existing 3-D plot.
plotAddTS	Adds a curve of time series data to an existing time series plot.
plotAddTSHF	Adds high-frequency and/or irregularly spaced time series data to an existing 2-D plot.
plotAddXY	Adds an XY plot to an existing 2-D graph.
plotAddXYFill	Adds an area plot between sets of lines to an existing 2-D plot.

Spanning bars and lines

plotAddHBar	Adds one or more horizontal bars spanning the full extent of the x-axis to an existing graph.
plotAddHLine	Adds one or more horizontal lines spanning the full extent of the x-axis to an existing graph
plotAddVBar	Adds one or more vertical bars spanning the full extent of the y-axis to an existing graph.
plotAddVLine	Adds one or more vertical lines spanning the full extent of the y-axis to an existing graph

Color palettes

blendColorPalette	Create a new palette that blends between a list of colors.
getColorPalette	Retrieves a named color palette as a string array. Some names offer multiple palettes based on the number of colors requested. These generally range from a base of 3 to a maximum of 8-12 for color brewer palettes.
getHSLPalette	Create a set of evenly spaced colors in HSL hue space.
getHSLuvPalette	Create a set of evenly spaced circular hues in the human-friendly <a href=”https://www.hsluv.org/”>HSLuv</a> color system.
listColorPalettes	List available color palettes known by GAUSS.

Subplots and size

plotCanvasSize	Controls the size of the canvas on which the next plot is drawn.
plotClearLayout	Clears any previously set plot layouts.
plotCustomLayout	Plots a graph of user-specified size at a user-specified location.
plotLayout	Divides a plot into a grid of subplots and assigns the cell location in which to draw the next created graph.

Graph windows

plotCloseAll	Closes all open graph tabs.
plotOpenWindow	Opens a new, empty graph window to be used by the next drawn graph.
plotSetNewWindow	Sets whether or not graph should be drawn in the same window or a new window.

Export and save

plotSave

Saves the last created graph to a user specified file type, such as JPG, PNG, PDF, TIFF and more.

Graph settings

plotGetDefaults	Gets the default settings for a specified graph type.
plotSetFonts	Sets the font family, size and color for all or a subset of the text elements in a graph.

Title, legend and axis labels

plotSetLegend	Adds a legend to a graph.
plotSetLegendBkd	Sets the opacity and color for the background of a graph legend.
plotSetLegendBorder	Controls the color and thickness of the legend border.
plotSetLegendFont	Set the font, font size and font color for the text in the legend.
plotSetLegendTitle	Sets the text for the legend title.
plotSetTextInterpreter	Controls the text interpreter (LaTeX, HTML) settings for one or more text labels.
plotSetTitle	Controls the settings for the title for a graph.
plotSetXLabel	Controls the settings for the x-axis label on a graph.
plotSetYLabel	Controls the settings for the y-axis label on a graph.
plotSetZLabel	Controls the settings for the z-axis label on a graph.

Axes and grid

plotSetActiveX	Determines whether subsequent plotSet calls apply to the top or bottom x-axis.
plotSetActiveY	Determines whether subsequent plotSet calls apply to the left or right y-axis.
plotSetAxesPen	Sets the color, width and style for the axes lines.
plotSetGridPen	Controls the thickness, color, and style for the grid lines.
plotSetOutlineEnabled	Turns on an outline around the plot.
plotSetWhichXAxis	Assigns curves to the top or bottom x-axis.
plotSetWhichYAxis	Assigns curves to the right or left y-axis.
plotSetXGridPen	Controls the thickness, color, and style for the grid lines from the x-axis.
plotSetXPen	Controls the thickness, color, and style for the x-axis line.
plotSetXRange	Sets the range for the x-axis, and optionally the distance between major ticks and the first tick to label.
plotSetYGridPen	Controls the thickness, color, and style for the grid lines from the y-axis.
plotSetYPen	Controls the thickness, color, and style for the y-axis line.
plotSetYRange	Sets the range for the y-axis, and optionally the distance between major ticks and the first tick to label.

Axes ticks

plotSetTicLabelFont	Controls the font name, size and color for the x and y-axis tick labels.
plotSetTicPosition	Controls if the x and y-axis tick is inside or outside the axis lines.
plotSetXMinorTicCount	Controls the number of minor ticks to place between major ticks on the x-axis of a 2-D plot.
plotSetXTicInterval	Controls the interval between x-axis tick labels and also allows the user to specify the first tick to be labeled for 2-D graphs.
plotSetXTicLabel	Controls the formatting and angle of x-axis tick labels.
plotSetXTicPosition	Controls if the x-axis tick is inside or outside the x-axis line.
plotSetYMinorTicCount	Controls the number of minor ticks to place between major ticks on the y-axis of a 2-D plot.
plotSetYTicInterval	Controls the interval between y-axis tick labels and also allows the user to specify the first tick to be labeled for 2-D graphs.
plotSetYticLabel	Controls the formatting and angle of y-axis tick labels.
plotSetYTicPosition	Controls if the y-axis tick is inside or outside the y-axis line.

Line color, style and fill

plotSetBkdColor	Sets background color of a graph.
plotSetColorMap	Sets the color maps for a surface or contour plot.
plotSetFill	Sets the fill style, transparency and color for scatter symbols, area plots, histograms and bar graphs.
plotSetLinePen	Sets line color, thickness and style.
plotSetLineSymbol	Sets line symbols displayed on the plotted points of a graph.
plotSetMissGap	Controls whether missing data creates a gap in line plots, or is ignored.

Box and Bar settings

plotSetJitterRange	Adds a small random perturbation (jitter) to plotBox outliers, or plotScatter plots so that overlapping observations can be better seen.
plotSetBarWidth	Sets the width of the bars in bar plots.
plotSetBoxWidth	Sets the width of the boxes in box plots.

Contour settings

plotSetContourLabels	Sets the format and precision of contour height labels.
plotSetZLevels	Controls the heights at which lines are drawn on a contour plot.

Annotations

plotAddArrow	Adds an arrow to an existing graph.
plotAddShape	Adds an arrow, line, ellipse or rectangle to an existing graph.
plotAddTextbox	Adds a textbox to an existing graph.

Annotation settings

annotationGetDefaults	Fills in an instance of a plotAnnotation structure with default values.
annotationSetBkd	Sets the background color and transparency level for a textbox, rectangle or ellipse.
annotationSetFont	Sets the font properties of a plotAnnotation structure for controlling text boxes added to a graph.
annotationSetLineColor	Sets the line color for textbox, rectangle or ellipse borders as well as the color for lines and arrows.
annotationSetLinePen	Sets the line width, color and style for textbox, rectangle or ellipse borders as well as the color for lines and arrows.
annotationSetLineStyle	Sets the line style for textbox, rectangle or ellipse borders as well as the style for lines and arrows.
annotationSetLineThickness	Sets the line thickness for textbox, rectangle or ellipse borders as well as the color for lines and arrows.
annotationSetTextAlign	Sets the alignment for the text inside of textbox annotations.