Re: trouble using 2 plots on the same chart

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le lundi 30 juin 2008 à 22:53 +0200, Pascal Duchatelle a écrit :
> I wish to put 2 plots on the same chart: a vertical column (bars) and a lineplot. Basically the bar plot is 
> a "histogram" and the line a fit to the data. Whatever the order in which I create both plots, once the 
> second is created, the X axis still has the correct scale (say 0 to 120) but the bars are just shifted to 
> the right between 0 and 40 (there are actually 40 bins/bars). This means that as long as only one plot is 
> created the X axis is ok (correct scale).
> Is there a way to circumvent this problem ? The strange thing is that when using a histogram plot (density; 
> like I did before knowing it was not what I needed) together with a lineplot worked just fine i.e. both 
> plots were superimposed.
> Thanx for any help.
> Pascal

You most probably use an xy scatter plot as the second plot. I think
that a line plot would be more appropriate in your case.

Regards,
Jean