

Download Octave for Mac OS X from the Octaveforge homepage (latest version at time of writing was 3.2.2). Scientific Plotting on Mac OS X (Intel) using Gnuplot and Plot Augat 11:00 am Filed under Mac, Tips and Tricks After having successfully moved my LaTeX publishing environment to the new Macbook, all that was left was a working Intel build of gnuplot 4.1.0 (which has some nice new features over 4.0). It was originally created to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively, but has grown to support many non-interactive uses such as web scripting. Gnuplot for Mac is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for macOS and many other platforms.The source code is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). I have installed X11 and XQuartz 2.7.4 and after that I installed gnuplot, but unfortunately gnuplot couldn't plot. I am trying to plot with gnuplot on my Mac (OS X 10.8.5).

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Prior to installing this, you need to install X11/XQuartz. Confirmed to work also on macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and 10.14 (Mojave). These are primarily intended for users who normally work on Linux and wish to replicate their tools on a Macintosh. Binary versions of Gnuplot for OS X/macOS.
