On Thu, 24 Nov 2016, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
El 23/11/16 a las 18:04, Allin Cottrell escribió:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
>
>> I am trying to plot a given series in X with several different series in Y
>> in multiple scatterplots (View/Multiple graphs/X-Y scatters), but gretl
>> gives an error. The problem is with the name of the variable, which is
>> more than 7 letters and it seems gretl cuts it to 7 characters. This
>> series with only seven characters do not exist so it gives an error.
>
> Ignacio, could you give a specific example of this?
>
> I tried running the following:
>
> <hansl>
> open data4-10.gdt
> series private_enrollment = ENROLL
> series catholic_proportion = CATHOL
> series white_proportion = WHITE
> series NEA_membership = MEMNEA
> series college_educated = COLLEGE
> series pupil_teacher_ratio = PUPIL
> </hansl>
>
> then asking for multi-scatters of private_enrollment (y-axis) against the 5
> other renamed series. The graph came out OK (in Spanish as well as in
> English).
Try private_enrollment in the x-axis against the 5 other series. The problem
is when we want a unique series in X and several different series in Y.
Ah, now I can reproduce the problem. A fix shouldn't be far off.
Allin