Gnuplot minimum and maximum boundaries for autoscaling

Question

How can I limit the autoscaling of gnuplot, so that, as example for the y-max, it is at least a certain value and it would autoscale up to fixed \"limit\"?

From loo

Answer 1

In this case, you could filter the data and let gnuplot do it's normal auto-scaling:

set yrange [*:*]
plot 'mydatafile' u 1:(($2 >= YMIN && $2 <= YMAX) ? $2 : 1/0)