Amended 11 March 2016

I wanted to produce a basic dotplot using the LaTeX pgfplot package. I looked for guidance in the extensive manual but didn't find what I wanted (that is not to say it's not there). I managed to find a workaround, which I have shared here. The results are not perfect, but will do for now.

This is the table containing my data:

I used the scatterplot as the basis for the dotplot and worked out this code.

I did three of these. Here are the results. Not too bad.


\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.9}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\caption{Dotplot: French}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
xlabel={Marks out of ten},
ylabel={},%no label for the y axis
yticklabels={}, %no numbers displayed on the y
ymin=0,
ymax=10,
xline,
xmin=0, %sets the minimum of the x axis
xmax=10, %sets the max of the x axis.
%As the test was out of ten I have set max to 10.
]
\addplot[scatter,only marks,
scatter src=explicit symbolic]
coordinates
{
(2,0) %the first number is the marks out of ten (the x axis).
% Use 0 for the y axis until the second occurrence.
(4,0)
(5,0)
(7,0)
(7,1) %the second number here is 1 because we have already used 7,0.
%This is because 2 people got 7 out of 10.
};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}
\end{document}