LaTeX bar chart

Question

I am trying to make a bar chart using LaTeX. I've been unsuccessful so far, so can anyone help me out, perhaps with a copy of a recent project? How can I make a bar chart with pstricks? I would appreciate the most simple solution possible because I just got started with TeX recently.

Like mentioned here in the official document

This is what I have so far:

\psset{unit=0.5in}%
\begin{pspicture}(0,-0.5)(3,3)%
\readpsbardata{\data}{example1.csv}%
\psbarchart[barstyle={red,blue}]{\data}%
\end{pspicture}

ok i think i found out what's the problem. i have to make it a dvi file first? am i right? — Sven Koluem, Feb 04 '11 at 19:55
See [this page](http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdfoutput) for information about PDF output with PSTricks. — Philipp, Feb 04 '11 at 20:12
I don't have an answer, but you will probably want to get to know http://tex.stackexchange.com/ for LaTex questions. — mbmcavoy, Feb 04 '11 at 20:18
it s just the combination: latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf -> viewer. — Sven Koluem, Feb 05 '11 at 16:44

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 05 '11 at 03:58

I highly recommend using the magical combination of PGF, TiKZ and PGFPlots. These tools are generally accepted as the replacements to pstricks. They are compatible with pdflatex and many other tools that give pstricks trouble.

This following highly semantic TeX-source

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.4} 

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}

\begin{axis}[%
scale only axis,
width=5in,
height=4in,
xmin=-3, xmax=3,
ymin=0, ymax=1,
axis on top]
\addplot[
  ybar,
  bar width=0.102874in, 
  bar shift=0in,
  fill=red,
  draw=black] 
  plot coordinates{ 
    (-2.9,0.00022263) (-2.7,0.000682328) (-2.5,0.00193045) (-2.3,0.00504176)
    (-2.1,0.0121552) (-1.9,0.0270518) (-1.7,0.0555762) (-1.5,0.105399)
    (-1.3,0.18452) (-1.1,0.298197) (-0.9,0.444858) (-0.7,0.612626)
    (-0.5,0.778801) (-0.3,0.913931) (-0.1,0.99005) (0.1,0.99005)
    (0.3,0.913931) (0.5,0.778801) (0.7,0.612626) (0.9,0.444858) 
    (1.1,0.298197) (1.3,0.18452) (1.5,0.105399) (1.7,0.0555762)
    (1.9,0.0270518) (2.1,0.0121552) (2.3,0.00504176) (2.5,0.00193045)
    (2.7,0.000682328) (2.9,0.00022263)
  };

\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Yields

Bar graph example

nice answer, replacing pstricks is a good option i will take a look at the the magical combination ;) — Sven Koluem, Feb 05 '11 at 16:44

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 05 '11 at 11:16

You have to use pst-bar package and pstricks package.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-bar}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\begin{filecontents*}{example1.csv}
Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
1700, 1690, 1600, 1800, 1750, 1210, 1200
\end{filecontents*}

\psset{xunit=0.5in,yunit=0.0015in}
\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(8,2000)
\psframe[fillstyle=solid,fillcolor=black!10,linestyle=solid](0,0)
(8,2000)
\psaxes[yticksize=0 8,ticks=y,labels=y,Dx=1,Dy=500](0,0)
(0,0)(8,2000)
\readpsbardata[header=true]{\data}{example1.csv}
\psbarchart[barstyle=blue]{\data}
\end{pspicture}

\end{document}

LaTeX bar chart

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