Plotting two histograms from two different files/directories in one canvas

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Hello Everyone,

I have a question on using TCanvas.
I have two histograms that I created in two separate directories from two different files.
More specifically, I have a file called hist1.c that I run in a directory called signal (that contains the data for my signal run that I am analyzing), and I also have another file called hist2.c that I run in a directory called background. hist1.c is my signal histogram and hist2.c is my background histogram. Is there a way to plot my signal histogram,hist1.c, against my background histogram,hist2.c. In other words, how can I plot hist1.c in the same canvas as hist2.c?

Thank you.

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I also wanted to show what I have attempted so far and the consistent error that I get. (I managed to get all my files in the same directory.)
First, I tried to follow this question that was successfully answered:
How do I get an object from a file?
When I wrote this:
selecthist.c (929 Bytes)

I get the error that:

#18 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
Error in <HandleInterpreterException>: Trying to dereference null pointer or trying to call routine taking non-null arguments.
Execution of your code was aborted.
In file included from input_line_8:1:
/mnt/c/1/MG5_aMC_v2_6_6/trisignal/Events/run_01/selecthist.c:40:4: warning: null passed to a callee that requires a non-null argument [-Wnonnull]
   df_zzz_backg->DrawClone();

But, I thought I followed the answer in the link, and I do have df_zzz_backg in my hist2.c file so I am not sure why I get this error. Any idea on how to fix this please?

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Try (see if histograms exist):
rootls -l hist_xx_true1.root hist_xx_sig1.root

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I type:

root -l hist_xx_true1.root
then root -1 hist_xx_sig1.root

I get:

root [0]
Attaching file hist_xx_true1.root as _file0...
(TFile *) 0x7fffbb7f9f50

then .q ( separately),
and get:

Attaching file hist_xx_sig1.root as _file0...
(TFile *) 0x7fffdb972df0
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You can try: gFile->ls();

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Ok, this is what I tried and this is my result (the error message is similar to what I see above the null pointer error:

$ root
   ------------------------------------------------------------
  | Welcome to ROOT 6.18/04                  https://root.cern |
  |                               (c) 1995-2019, The ROOT Team |
  | Built for linuxx8664gcc on Sep 13 2019, 20:06:00           |
  | From tag , 11 September 2019                               |
  | Try '.help', '.demo', '.license', '.credits', '.quit'/'.q' |
   ------------------------------------------------------------

root [0] gFile->ls();
#0  0x00007f2754c34687 in __GI___waitpid (pid=4051, stat_loc=stat_loc
entry=0x7fffd88c7878, options=options
entry=0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/waitpid.c:30
#1  0x00007f2754b9f067 in do_system (line=<optimized out>) at ../sysdeps/posix/system.c:149
#2  0x00007f2755864823 in TUnixSystem::Exec (shellcmd=<optimized out>, this=0x7fffd0065b80) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/unix/src/TUnixSystem.cxx:2106
#3  TUnixSystem::StackTrace (this=0x7fffd0065b80) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/unix/src/TUnixSystem.cxx:2400
#4  0x00007f274fff8d55 in cling::MultiplexInterpreterCallbacks::PrintStackTrace() () from /home/cucip/builddir/lib/libCling.so
#5  0x00007f274fff875b in cling_runtime_internal_throwIfInvalidPointer () from /home/cucip/builddir/lib/libCling.so
#6  0x00007f27560910b4 in ?? ()
#7  0x00007fffd09e3cb0 in ?? ()
#8  0x00007fffd00c7480 in ?? ()
#9  0x00007fffd0a1dc38 in ?? ()
#10 0x00007f274fff8710 in ?? () from /home/cucip/builddir/lib/libCling.so
#11 0x00007fffd011c440 in ?? ()
#12 0x0000000056091000 in ?? ()
#13 0x00007f275008eab0 in ?? () from /home/cucip/builddir/lib/libCling.so
#14 0x00007fffd88ca170 in ?? ()
#15 0x00007f2756091000 in ?? ()
#16 0x00007f27500680a0 in cling::IncrementalExecutor::executeWrapper(llvm::StringRef, cling::Value*) const () from /home/cucip/builddir/lib/libCling.so
#17 0x00007f274fffae77 in cling::Interpreter::RunFunction(clang::FunctionDecl const*, cling::Value*) () from /home/cucip/builddir/lib/libCling.so
#18 0x00007f274fffc4df in cling::Interpreter::EvaluateInternal(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, cling::CompilationOptions, cling::Value*, cling::Transaction**, unsigned long) () from /home/cucip/builddir/lib/libCling.so
#19 0x00007f274fffc787 in cling::Interpreter::process(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, cling::Value*, cling::Transaction**, bool) () from /home/cucip/builddir/lib/libCling.so
#20 0x00007f27500bf72d in cling::MetaProcessor::process(llvm::StringRef, cling::Interpreter::CompilationResult&, cling::Value*, bool) () from /home/cucip/builddir/lib/libCling.so
#21 0x00007f274ff7b68e in HandleInterpreterException (metaProcessor=0x7fffd06fa380, input_line=<optimized out>, compRes=
0x7fffd88ca15c: cling::Interpreter::kSuccess, result=result
entry=0x7fffd88ca170) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/metacling/src/TCling.cxx:2152
#22 0x00007f274ff8ff8d in TCling::ProcessLine (this=0x7fffd00c6c90, line=<optimized out>, error=0x7fffd88ca65c) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/metacling/src/TCling.cxx:2310
#23 0x00007f2755711ca2 in TApplication::ProcessLine (this=0x7fffd00b2900, line=<optimized out>, sync=<optimized out>, err=0x7fffd88ca65c) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/base/src/TApplication.cxx:1026
#24 0x00007f2755be1962 in TRint::ProcessLineNr (this=this
entry=0x7fffd00b2900, filestem=filestem
entry=0x7f2755bf39cd "ROOT_prompt_", line=0x7fffd88ca719 "gFile->ls();", error=0x7fffd88ca65c, error
entry=0x0) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/rint/src/TRint.cxx:746
#25 0x00007f2755be1cd4 in TRint::HandleTermInput (this=0x7fffd00b2900) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/rint/src/TRint.cxx:607
#26 0x00007f2755866600 in TUnixSystem::CheckDescriptors (this=this
entry=0x7fffd0065b80) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/unix/src/TUnixSystem.cxx:1309
#27 0x00007f2755867f98 in TUnixSystem::DispatchOneEvent (this=0x7fffd0065b80, pendingOnly=<optimized out>) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/unix/src/TUnixSystem.cxx:1064
#28 0x00007f275577cd81 in TSystem::InnerLoop (this=0x7fffd0065b80) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/base/src/TSystem.cxx:412
#29 TSystem::Run (this=0x7fffd0065b80) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/base/src/TSystem.cxx:362
#30 0x00007f275570fc7f in TApplication::Run (this=this
entry=0x7fffd00b2900, retrn=retrn
entry=false) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/base/src/TApplication.cxx:1178
#31 0x00007f2755be32d1 in TRint::Run (this=0x7fffd00b2900, retrn=<optimized out>) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/core/rint/src/TRint.cxx:460
#32 0x00007f2756200a0c in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0x7fffd88ccaa8) at /home/cucip/root-6.18.04/main/src/rmain.cxx:30
Error in <HandleInterpreterException>: Trying to dereference null pointer or trying to call routine taking non-null arguments.
Execution of your code was aborted.
ROOT_prompt_0:1:1: warning: null passed to a callee that requires a non-null argument [-Wnonnull]
gFile->ls();
^~~~~
/home/cucip/builddir/include/TFile.h:335:15: note: expanded from macro 'gFile'
#define gFile (TFile::CurrentFile())
              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
root [1]

If I type .ls in the root[1] terminal , I get nothing?
What does it mean? Is there a way to fix this?

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root hist_xx_true1.root
root [0] _file0->ls()
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But, how can I plot the two histograms into one canvas?

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No matter how I run the code, I still get the error:

warning: null passed to a callee that requires a non-null argument [-Wnonnull]
df_zzz_backg->DrawCopy();

even though I can see my root files.

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You haven’t executed the command line which I gave you.

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I did and I get:

$ rootls -l hist_xx_true1.root hist_xx_sig1.root
hist_xx_sig1.root :
hist_xx_true1.root :

I also tried:

root -l hist_xx_true1.root hist_xx_sig1.root selecthist.c

but i get the same error about a null pointer as shown above

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The “rootls” output clearly shows that both your files are completely empty.

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I guess you need:

TFile *hfile1 = TFile::Open("hist_xx_sig1.root", "RECREATE");
df_xx_sig_4mu->Write();
delete hfile1;
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@couet
could you give a hand?

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Can you post your data files ?
Did I missed them ?

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This cannot work… Where is df_zzz_backg defined?

Same here:

You are using a variable (df_xx_sig_4mu) before declaring it. This cannot work. Just look at the error messages.

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I understand what the error is saying. However, I don’t understand why it is there if df_zzz_backg and df_xx_sig_4mu are defined inside my two .c files (which work fine and which I then wrote as a .root file). I look inside my directory and my two root files are filled, but when I write rootls as suggested by @Wile_E_Coyote, it shows that my root files are empty. So I am still not entirely sure where the problem is coming from. How can I define df_zzz_backg and df_xx_sig_4mu and have the .root files not “empty” so that my df_zzz_backg and df_xx_sig_4mu could be defined/read? Also, is there a certain way that I need to run my code so that both files can be opened/read at the same time?
@couet Which files do you need my two root files or .c files. My code to plot the two histograms is above in the forum?

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You need to fix the macros which produce your ROOT files (e.g. AS SHOWN IN MY PREVIOUS POST) so that these files do not come out empty.

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Ok, I understand now. I was writing your suggestion in the wrong place. Thank you very much!

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