Simple ROOTbook (C++)

This simple ROOTbook shows how to create a histogram, fill it and draw it. The language chosen is C++.

In order to activate the interactive visualsisation we can use the JSROOT magic:



In [1]:

    
%jsroot on

Now we will create a histogram specifying its title and axes titles:



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TH1F h("myHisto","My Histo;X axis;Y axis",64, -4, 4)









    



(TH1F &) Name: myHisto Title: My Histo NbinsX: 64

If you are wondering what this output represents, it is what we call a "printed value". The ROOT interpreter can indeed be instructed to "print" according to certain rules instances of a particular class.

Time to create a random generator and fill our histogram:



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TRandom3 rndmGenerator;
for (auto i : ROOT::TSeqI(1000)){
    auto rndm = rndmGenerator.Gaus();
    h.Fill(rndm);
}

We can now draw the histogram. We will at first create a canvas, the entity which in ROOT holds graphics primitives.



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TCanvas c;
h.Draw();
c.Draw();

We'll try now to beutify the plot a bit, for example filling the histogram with a colour and setting a grid on the canvas.



In [5]:

    
h.SetFillColor(kBlue-10);
c.SetGrid();
h.Draw();
c.Dra();









    



input_line_57:5:3: error: no member named 'Dra' in 'TCanvas'
c.Dra();
~ ^

Oops! We mispelled a method. Luckily ROOT informed us about the typo. Let's draw the canvas properly:



In [6]:

    
c.Draw();

Alright: we are done with our first step into the ROOTbooks world!