From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Jan 20 11:30:23 1999
Subject: simple question about plotting
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Vitaliy A Repin <vitaly at radio dot hop dot stu dot neva dot ru>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:27:55 -0600 (CST)

On 20-Jan-1999, Vitaliy A Repin <vitaly at radio dot hop dot stu dot neva dot ru> wrote:

| Hello!
| 
| What should I do if I want to plot special function, such as besselj(1,x)?
| Should I do something like the following:
| 
| while (x<8)
| Y(i)=besselj(1,x);
| X(i)=x;
| x=x+.1;
| i=i+1;
| endwhile;
| 
| plot (X,Y)
| 
| ?

  x = (0:0.1:8)';  # or use linspace()
  plot (x, besselj (1, x));

jwe