# Notate the original value form (not logged) in loglog plot
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notate-the-original-value-form-not-logged-in-loglog-plot/36049
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, plotting, gaston
**Created:** [March 16, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notate-the-original-value-form-not-logged-in-loglog-plot/36049 "2020-03-16T17:32:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@1634](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/1634)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notate-the-original-value-form-not-logged-in-loglog-plot/36049/1 "2020-03-16T17:32:25Z")
The x value vector x=[5e-10, 5e-9, 5e-8, 5e-7, 5e-6]. If `plot(,xticks=x)` then it’s marked after logged. Can I notate it by 5e\*\* scale correspondingly? Also, is it possible to tick y=collect(0:10:100) by its original form on y axis not logged?
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### Author:  [@mbaz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbaz)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notate-the-original-value-form-not-logged-in-loglog-plot/36049/2 "2020-03-16T18:02:06Z")
You can do something like this in [Gaston](https://mbaz.github.io/Gaston.jl/v0.10.0/), which uses gnuplot to plot:
```julia
using Gaston
t=1:0.01:10
set(axis="loglog")
plot(t,sin.(2π*t).+2,gpcom="set xtics 0, 2, 10 nologscale")
```
which produces
The key part is the `nologscale` tics parameter. See page 190 in Gnuplot’s 5.2 user manual for more details.
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### Author:  [@1634](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/1634)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notate-the-original-value-form-not-logged-in-loglog-plot/36049/3 "2020-03-16T19:07:41Z")
It was successfully installed but fail to be used.
```julia
(v1.3) pkg> add Gaston
Updating registry at `C:\Users\Amend\.julia\registries\General`
Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git`
Resolving package versions...
Installed Gaston ─ v0.10.0
Updating `C:\Users\Amend\.julia\environments\v1.3\Project.toml`
[4b11ee91] + Gaston v0.10.0
Updating `C:\Users\Amend\.julia\environments\v1.3\Manifest.toml`
[4b11ee91] + Gaston v0.10.0
julia> using Gaston
[Info: Precompiling Gaston [4b11ee91-296f-5714-9832-002c20994614]
ERROR: InitError: Gaston cannot be loaded: gnuplot is not available on this system.
Stacktrace:
[1] __init__ () at C:\Users\Amend\.julia\packages\Gaston\JtE39\src\Gaston.jl:64
[2] _include_from_serialized(::String, ::Array{Any,1}) at .\loading.jl:692
[3] _require_from_serialized(::String) at .\loading.jl:743
[4] _require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:1034
[5] require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:922
[6] require(::Module, ::Symbol) at .\loading.jl:917
during initialization of module Gaston
```
I searched for the error report but only found
[https://maleadt.github.io/NewPkgEval.jl/detail/Gaston.html](https://maleadt.github.io/NewPkgEval.jl/detail/Gaston.html)
Sorry I got confused. Is Gaston availale to Julia1.3.0 or `this system`? Also, if this can be solved, can the same syntax be applied in scatter()?
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### Author:  [@mbaz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbaz)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notate-the-original-value-form-not-logged-in-loglog-plot/36049/4 "2020-03-16T19:13:45Z")
Yeah – you need to install gnuplot too: [gnuplot download](http://www.gnuplot.info/download.html)
And yeah – the same syntax is available to `scatter`.
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### Author:  [@1634](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/1634)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notate-the-original-value-form-not-logged-in-loglog-plot/36049/5 "2020-03-16T20:59:11Z")
> [@mbaz](#):
>
> Gnuplot’s 5.2 user manual
The flexibility is awesome!
I installed Gaston from
> **[gnuplot - Browse /gnuplot/5.2.8 at SourceForge.net](https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/5.2.8/)**
>
> A portable, multi-platform, command-line driven graphing utility
Though a warning appears after installation
But in julia, `using Gaston` is successful. However, it keeps reporting
`config not defined`
```julia
julia> using Gaston
julia> t=1:0.01:10
1.0:0.01:10.0
julia> Gaston.set(axis="loglog")
ERROR: UndefVarError: config not defined
Stacktrace:
[1] (::Gaston.var"#kw##set")(::NamedTuple{(:axis,),Tuple{String}}, ::typeof(set)) at .\none:0
[2] top-level scope at none:0
julia> Gaston.plot(t,sin.(2π*t).+2,gpcom="set xtics 0, 2, 10 nologscale")
ERROR: UndefVarError: config not defined
Stacktrace:
[1] (::Gaston.var"#kw##plot")(::NamedTuple{(:gpcom,),Tuple{String}}, ::typeof(Gaston.plot), ::StepRangeLen{Float64,Base.TwicePrecision{Float64},Base.TwicePrecision{Float64}}, ::Array{Float64,1}) at .\none:0
[2] top-level scope at none:0
```
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### Author:  [@mbaz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbaz)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notate-the-original-value-form-not-logged-in-loglog-plot/36049/6 "2020-03-16T21:08:05Z")
Hmh, that’s a new one… Is this in a fresh Julia session? Are you running Gaston v0.10 (not master)?
BTW, you can run `set(...)` and `plot(...)`, without `Gaston.` at the start.
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### Author:  [@1634](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/1634)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notate-the-original-value-form-not-logged-in-loglog-plot/36049/7 "2020-03-16T21:30:46Z")
thanks but that’s the reason I added `Gaston.` before `set`
```julia
julia> using Gaston
julia> t=1:0.01:10
julia> set(axis="loglog")
ERROR: UndefVarError: config not defined
julia> plot(t,sin.(2π*t).+2,gpcom="set xtics 0, 2, 10 nologscale")
ERROR: Unknown key: gpcom
```
Yes it’s
```julia
julia> Pkg.API.installed()["Gaston"]
v"0.10.0"
```
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### Author:  [@mbaz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbaz)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notate-the-original-value-form-not-logged-in-loglog-plot/36049/8 "2020-03-16T21:37:31Z")
The only reason I can think of for getting this message is that you’re running the same session where `using Gaston` failed (because gnuplot was not installed), and something was left uninitialized. Can you try exiting Julia and starting again?