Plotting the data with scrollable x (time/horizontal) axis on Linux

Question

I want to plot data where x axis is long. If I plot the whole x axis then the plot shrinks and it is almost unreadable. I\'ve found this answer on SO which points to followi

Answer 1

Have you considered using matplotlib slider widgets?

Here is a little code just to show as example

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.widgets import Slider

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.25)

t = np.arange(0.0, 100.0, 0.1)
s = np.sin(2*np.pi*t)
l, = plt.plot(t,s)
plt.axis([0, 10, -1, 1])

axcolor = 'lightgoldenrodyellow'
axpos = plt.axes([0.2, 0.1, 0.65, 0.03], axisbg=axcolor)

spos = Slider(axpos, 'Pos', 0.1, 90.0)

def update(val):
    pos = spos.val
    ax.axis([pos,pos+10,-1,1])
    fig.canvas.draw_idle()

spos.on_changed(update)

plt.show()

Answer 2

In R this answer could help you. It will save the plot as a separate png, but you can change the format type with a different command. The relevant code from that answer is reproduced:

 png("wide.png", width = 1e5, height = 500)
 plot((sin(1:10000/100)+rnorm(10000)/5),type='l')
 dev.off()
 #bmp("wide.bmp", width = 1e5, height = 500)
 #plot((sin(1:10000/100)+rnorm(10000)/5),type='l')
 #dev.off()
 #note that the png has a size of 396 KB, while the bmp has 48,830 KB.