GNUFOR
a GNUPLOT / FORTRAN90 interface


GNUFOR is a FORTRAN77 library which provides an interface to the GNUPLOT plotting software.

GNUFOR makes it possible, while running a FORTRAN90 program on a UNIX system, to generate some data and request an immediate plot. This is done by issuing a SYSTEM command that starts up GNUPLOT, and feeding it the appropriate commands and data. The FORTRAN90 program pauses while the graph is displayed in an X window, and the user can admire the plots for a while, before hitting return and giving control back to the FORTRAN90 program.

Thanks to some suggestions of Morag Am-Shallem, the FORTRAN90 program can continue execution without waiting for GNUPLOT. In this way, for example, a program that was computing some quantity can, from time to time, display an updated plot of what it is doing. A user can glance at the picture from time to time, while the FORTRAN90 program merrily computes away. Something like this can be done with a C program that calls the GNUPLOT_I package.

To use this program, the command "gnuplot" must be in your path.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

GNUFOR is available in a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version.

Related Data and Programs:

GNUPLOT, FORTRAN77 programs which illustrate how a program can write data and command files so that gnuplot can create plots of the program results.

GNUPLOT_I, a C library which allows an executing C, C++, FORTRAN77 or FORTRAN90 program to interact with the GNUPLOT graphics program.

GNUPLOT_I_EXAMPLES, C programs which demonstrate the use of the GNUPLOT_I library for interactive runtime GNUPLOT graphics.

GNUPLOT_I_EXAMPLES, C++ programs which demonstrate the use of the GNUPLOT_I library for interactive runtime GNUPLOT graphics.

GRAPHICS_EXAMPLES_GNUPLOT, gnuplot scripts which illustrate how various kinds of data can be displayed and analyzed graphically using the interactive executable graphics program gnuplot.

SPRING_ODE2, a FORTRAN77 program which shows how gnuplot graphics can be used to illustrate a solution of the ordinary differential equation (ODE) that describes the motion of a weight attached to a spring.

Reference:

  1. Philipp Janert,
    Gnuplot in Action: Understanding Data with Graphs,
    Manning, 2008,
    ISBN: 1-933988-39-8.
  2. Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley, John Campbell, David Kotz, Russell Lang,
    gnuplot, An Interactive Plotting Program,
    The Free Software Foundation, 1990.
  3. http://www.gnuplot.info/, the GNUPLOT Website.

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List of Routines:

You can go up one level to the FORTRAN77 source codes.


Last revised on 24 September 2012.