title: How to make an horizontal box-and-whiskers plot in gnuplot
body: <p>How do you make an horizontal box-and-whiskers plot in gnuplot? Similarly to this one:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/statug/63033/HTML/default/images/ex6bout.png" alt="an horizontal box-and-whiskers plot"></p>
  
  <p>Gnuplot can easily be used to produce vertical box-and-whiskers plots with the 'candlesticks' and 'whiskerbars' keywords, but I have not managed to find any example of an horizontal candlesticks/box-and-whiskers horizontal plot produced via gnuplot online.</p>
  
  <p>Example of a vertical plot produced by gnuplot:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~dts/cop3530/proj02/candlesticks.6.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">example of a vertical box-and-whiskers plot http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~dts/cop3530/proj02/candlesticks.6.png</a></p>