Dimension too large when Plotting

[Peter Jones-16]

I'm new to PGF/Tikz so please forgive my ignorance.

I'm trying to plot some data that I generated using gnuplot.  When I run
pdflatex I get a "! Dimension too large." error.  I found a posting
where someone else had this problem because one data point was 17,000.
My largest data point is 1007.

What am I doing wrong?

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}

  \draw plot[mark=*] file {r.data};

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

#Curve 0 of 1, 25 points
#x y type
 0  76  i
 41.9583  17.3261  i
 83.9167  74.6317  i
 125.875  92.7898  i
 167.833  85.5883  i
 209.792  84.2185  i
 251.75  87.0037  i
 293.708  110.165  i
 335.667  34.1035  i
 377.625  38.4525  i
 419.583  79.0586  i
 461.542  82.8816  i
 503.5  86.3076  i
 545.458  17.3935  i
 587.417  17.75  i
 629.375  100.39  i
 671.333  64.2016  i
 713.292  87.7385  i
 755.25  10.6993  i
 797.208  66.739  i
 839.167  57.2051  i
 881.125  56.5284  i
 923.083  105.99  i
 965.042  87.2071  i
 1007  96  i

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


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[Daniel Glaser-3]

Hi Peter,

the dimensions are much too large (approx. 1000 for x). Look at the
highest x and y coordinates. This can be easily fixed by scaling
options, e.g. with using \tikzpicture[scale=0.01] or scaling x and y
separately.

Cheers,
Daniel

> I'm new to PGF/Tikz so please forgive my ignorance.
>
> I'm trying to plot some data that I generated using gnuplot.  When I run
> pdflatex I get a "! Dimension too large." error.  I found a posting
> where someone else had this problem because one data point was 17,000.
> My largest data point is 1007.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{tikz}
>
> \begin{document}
> \begin{tikzpicture}
>
>   \draw plot[mark=*] file {r.data};
>
> \end{tikzpicture}
> \end{document}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> #Curve 0 of 1, 25 points
> #x y type
>  0  76  i
>  41.9583  17.3261  i
>  83.9167  74.6317  i
>  125.875  92.7898  i
>  167.833  85.5883  i
>  209.792  84.2185  i
>  251.75  87.0037  i
>  293.708  110.165  i
>  335.667  34.1035  i
>  377.625  38.4525  i
>  419.583  79.0586  i
>  461.542  82.8816  i
>  503.5  86.3076  i
>  545.458  17.3935  i
>  587.417  17.75  i
>  629.375  100.39  i
>  671.333  64.2016  i
>  713.292  87.7385  i
>  755.25  10.6993  i
>  797.208  66.739  i
>  839.167  57.2051  i
>  881.125  56.5284  i
>  923.083  105.99  i
>  965.042  87.2071  i
>  1007  96  i
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
>  

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[Peter Jones-16]

Daniel Glaser <lists@...> writes:
> the dimensions are much too large (approx. 1000 for x). Look at the
> highest x and y coordinates. This can be easily fixed by scaling
> options, e.g. with using \tikzpicture[scale=0.01] or scaling x and y
> separately.

Thank you, that worked perfectly.  Now I just need to figure out how to
suppress the line that connects the data points so it looks more like a
scatter chart.

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[Sebastián PEÑA SALDARRIAGA]

Peter Jones a écrit :

> Daniel Glaser <lists@...> writes:
>  
>> the dimensions are much too large (approx. 1000 for x). Look at the
>> highest x and y coordinates. This can be easily fixed by scaling
>> options, e.g. with using \tikzpicture[scale=0.01] or scaling x and y
>> separately.
>>    
>
> Thank you, that worked perfectly.  Now I just need to figure out how to
> suppress the line that connects the data points so it looks more like a
> scatter chart.
>
>  

Why don't you try the pgfplots package ?

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pgfplots.html

Sebastian

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[Peter Jones-16]

Peter Jones <mlists@...> writes:
> Thank you, that worked perfectly.  Now I just need to figure out how to
> suppress the line that connects the data points so it looks more like a
> scatter chart.

Got it: plot[mark=*,only marks]

I love documentation.  Thanks for all the help.

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