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Installation Notes:

  • Technical Support -- We offer free, but limited, technical support (mostly to help with installation problems). Contact technical support.

Install CoPlot:
CoPlot now includes all of the files that were optional in previous versions.
For all operating systems (Windows, Macs, and Linux)

  1. If your computer doesn't already have Java version 8,
    download and install Java version 8 by going to https://adoptium.net/ and downloading the latest release of Temurin 8 (LTS).
  2. Download coplot6451.zip (23,800,224 bytes).
    (Trouble downloading? Try this mirror site.)
     
  3. For Windows or Linux, use a Zip program to unzip coplot6451.zip into some directory,
    perhaps a new /programs directory on Windows (but not \Program Files or \Program Files (x86))
    or /usr/local/bin on Linux.
    Unzipping the .zip file will make a cohort6 directory which has all the files.

    On Macs, the .zip file will already be unzipped and will appear as a cohort6 folder in your Downloads folder.
    In Finder, drag the cohort6 folder to your Applications folder.

  4. For Linux, you need to make the script files exectuable. For example,
    cd cohort6
    chmod +x coplot.sh
    chmod +x costat.sh
    chmod +x cotext.sh
     
  5. To run the program,
    • For Windows, double click on the coplot.bat, costat.bat, or cotext.bat script files in the cohort6 directory.
      .bat may not appear, but Windows batch file will appear in the Type column or if you hover over the name.
      If Windows says it is an untrusted application, click More info : Run Anyway.
    • For Macs, this is an untrusted app (we're working on that), so you need to Control click on the coplot, costat or cotext Application files or the coplot.command, costat.command or cotext.command files in the cohort6 directory and select Open.
    • For Linux, double click on the coplot.sh, costat.sh, or cotext.sh script files in the cohort6 directory.
  6. If you have problems installing or running the program, see the suggestions below.
  7. Register the program to make it full functional:
    Use (in the program) Help : Register, and enter
    Your Name: For Free
    CoPlot Registration Number: 2001906721
    CoStat Registration Number: 928164897

 

 

Common Download Problems

  • If your browser changes the file's name before saving it, change the name back to the name specified above.
  • If the download freezes at 99% for more than a minute, try cancelling it and starting the download again. Usually, it will go super fast the second time and get to 100%. If that doesn't work, try downloading with a different browser (if you have one) or on a different computer. If that doesn't work, please send an email to CoHortSoftware at gmail.com.

 

Common Problems with Installing and Running CoPlot from the Command Line

When you double click on the coplot.bat or coplot.sh file, a window opens up, a bunch of text is written, then the window closes (without opening CoPlot).
You're going to need to edit the coplot.bat or coplot.sh file to solve the problem. But first, to see what the problem is:
  1. Open a command line window.
  2. cd to the cohort6 directory
  3. Type: coplot.bat or coplot.sh
Then the error message should remain visible. Then you can work to solve the problem by reading the other suggestions below.
 
Windows, Macs, or Linux says something like: "Bad command or file name: java" right after the script tries to run java.
The Java program isn't being found. Make sure Java is installed and accessible by typing java -version from a command line. It should answer with the version number. If not, fix the Java installation.

If Java is installed but not accessible via references to 'java', edit the script to include the name of the directory where the java program file is located.

There are text buttons, not graphics icon buttons, on the toolbar just below the menu titles.
Make sure that the icon's .gif files are indeed in the cohort6 directory: for example, check to see that OpenButton.gif is present. If it isn't, try to find out where it is (in Macs and Linux, use "find / -name 'OpenButton.gif'") as that may help you determine what went wrong with your installation.
 
Problems running CoPlot from a shortcut file or a desktop icon?
Make sure the shortcut points to the correct script file in the cohort6 directory. Also, make sure that the shortcut file makes the cohort6 directory the current directory before it runs the coplot script.
 
You want to associate .draw files with coplot.bat?
  1. Right click on a .draw file.
  2. Click on "Open with"
  3. Click on "More apps"
  4. Click on "Look for another app on this PC" at the bottom of the screen.
  5. Navigate through the directories to find and then click on coplot.bat.

 

What Is in the 'coplot' Script/Batch Files?

Few people will need to know these details. But here they are:

If you use the command line installation method, the CoHort programs are actually run by Macs/Linux shell scripts (for example, coplot, no extension), or Windows batch files (for example, coplot.bat, if you aren't using the coplot.exe file). In unusual cases (for example, non-Sun versions of Java), you may need to modify these files to get the programs to run on your computer.

Usually, the files have just one command in them. Using the Windows batch file for CoPlot as an example:
java -Xmx1300m -cp .;cohort.jar com.cohort.CoPlot %1 %2 %3 %4
The syntax is slightly different in the Macs/Linux shell scripts. The components are:

java
runs the program via the java program. If Java isn't found when you run the script file, make sure Java is correctly installed. In some circumstances, you need to add the full directory name before "java".
-Xmx1300m
specifies 1300 MB as the maximum amount of memory to be allocated to the program. 1300 MB is the most you can safely allocate on computers with 32-bit operating systems or 32-bit Java.

If you get an "out of memory" error message in a CoHort program, it is more likely that something other than memory is the problem. See Memory in the CoStat manual.

However, if you are working with huge data files and want to increase the memory allocation on 64-bit operating systems with 64-bit Java, just change the number: e.g., -Xmx3000m . The highest you should set this to is about 3/4 of the amount of physical memory in your computer. Specifying more than that leads to disk thrashing.

-cp .;cohort.jar
sets the Java classpath, which tells Java where to look for the Java class files. The cohort.jar file is a compressed file which contains all of the class files from CoHort Software. All of the other files which are distributed with CoPlot (for example, .fnt files) should be in the same directory as cohort.jar. In the Macs and Linux script files, the path separator is ":", not ";".
com.cohort.CoPlot
the name of the Java class to be run. This is "com.cohort.CoStat" or "com.cohort.CoText" in the other script files. This is case sensitive in all operating systems.
%1 %2 %3 ... (or similar)
passes the parameters on the command line (e.g., a document name) to the program.

 

Optional Document Name on the Command Line

For CoPlot, the extension of the documentName on the command line tells CoPlot what type of graphics file it is, so that CoPlot can import it. If documentName doesn't have an extension, ".draw" will be added. Supported file types (and the necessary extensions) are: CoPlot's native format (.draw), Adobe Illustrator (.eps), AutoCad (.dxf), CGM (.cgm), DOS CoDraw (.dra), DOS CoPlot (.gra), GIF (.gif), JPG (.jpg), PCX (.pcx), PNG (.png), PPM (.ppm), and Windows MetaFile (.wmf).

If you have one of these file types that doesn't have the appropriate extension, you need to either rename the file or use File : Open within the program. After any file is imported, the extension is changed to .draw (so that if you use File : Save, the file will be save in the .draw format and not overwrite the original file with the original extension).

CoStat Optional Datafile Name on the Command Line - For CoStat, the extension of the datafile name on the command line tells CoStat what type of data file it is, so that CoStat can import the data. If the datafile name doesn't have an extension, .dt will be added. Supported file types (and the necessary extensions) are: ASCII (.asc), Comma separated value ASCII (.csv), columnar ASCII (.col), CoStat (DOS .dt and Java .dt), dBASE (.dbf), Epi-Info (.rec), Excel (.xls), Gauss (.fmt), Genstat (.gsh), HTM (.htm), HTML (.html), Instat (.wor), Lotus 1-2-3 (.wk3), MatLab (.mat), Microstat II (.mii), Minitab (.mtw), MSTAT (.dat), Paradox (.db), Quattro (.wq1), Quattro Pro for Windows (.qpw), Rich Text Format (Word, .rtf), S+ (.sdd), SAS PC (.tpt), Space separated ASCII text (.txt), SPSS/Win (.sav), Stata (.dta), Statistica (.sta), Systat (.syd), Tab separated ASCII text (.tab).

For example, "costat longley.dbf" will run CoStat and import data from the Longley dBASE file. See File : Open in the CoStat manual for details.

 

Common Problems Running CoPlot

  • On some high-resolution screens, the icons in CoStat appear very small.
    The solution is: download Buttons2.zip (which are 2 times as big) or Buttons4.zip (which are 4 times as big) and unzip the contents into the cohort6 directory, thereby replacing the existing button image files. When you restart CoPlot or CoStat, you will see the larger button images.

    Or, if you want to revert to the original buttons, download and unzip Buttons1.zip.

 

Previous Versions

Although we don't officially support them or recommend using them, here are older versions of CoPlot:

 

Problems, Comments, Questions, or Suggestions?

We want your experience with CoPlot to be a good one. If you have problems, comments, questions, or suggestions, don't hesitate to contact technical support.