[Rivet] setting linear scale

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at cern.ch
Tue Mar 29 12:52:32 BST 2016


That explains it -- the latest version is 2.4.1. The version you are 
using is more than a year old, and we've made a lot of improvements 
since then. Probably (I hope!!) a newer release of CMSSW has at least 
Rivet 2.4.0?

Andy


On 29/03/16 12:29, Viesturs Veckalns wrote:
> it is
> rivet 2.2.1-eccfad2
> CMSSW_7_5_0
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Andy Buckley
> Sent: 29 March 2016 12:05
> To: Viesturs Veckalns; Chris Pollard
> Cc: rivet at projects.hepforge.org
> Subject: Re: [Rivet] setting linear scale
>
> Hi Viesturs,
>
> What version of Rivet are you using? The PLOT argument should have been
> accepted for several versions now. If you're using an up-to-date one,
> I'll investigate & fix.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
> On 29/03/16 10:52, Viesturs Veckalns wrote:
>> Dear Andy,
>> I also tried your suggestion:
>> rivet-mkhtml Pythia8.yoda PLOT:LogY=0
>>
>> but the PLOT file is not accepted:
>> Error: cannot read from <project_area>/output_files/PLOT
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Viesturs
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Andy Buckley
>> Sent: 23 March 2016 11:40
>> To: Chris Pollard; Viesturs Veckalns
>> Cc: rivet at projects.hepforge.org
>> Subject: Re: [Rivet] setting linear scale
>>
>> You may also find that passing a PLOT pseudo-file with plotting
>> attributes works, e.g.
>>
>> rivet-mkhtml myfile.yoda otherfile.yoda PLOT:LogY=0
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 23/03/16 10:29, Chris Pollard wrote:
>>> Hi Viesturs,
>>>
>>> Have a look at rivet-cmphistos. It has a --linear option, which is
>>> probably what you want. It is in general more flexible than rivet-mkhtml.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Viesturs Veckalns
>>> <viesturs.veckalns at cern.ch <mailto:viesturs.veckalns at cern.ch>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       Dear Rivet team,
>>>       I use rivet-mkhtml to produce plots. Unfortunately they are all
>>>       produced in log scale and I want to change it to a linear scale.
>>>       As I understand from
>>>
>>>       https://rivet.hepforge.org/make-plots.html
>>>
>>>       I would need to use the for that
>>>
>>>       make-plots
>>>
>>>       How can I in the configuration file iterate over all histograms in
>>>       the yoda file?
>>>
>>>       I think one needs to explain what is
>>>
>>>       file.dat
>>>
>>>       already in the section "Usage" in
>>>       https://rivet.hepforge.org/make-plots.html. Is that the
>>>       configuration file?
>>>
>>>       Regards,
>>>       Viesturs
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
>> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow
>>
>
>
> --
> Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow
>


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Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow


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