[Gretl-devel] Re: (recession) bars in plots broken with annual data?
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 21.01.2024 um 23:26 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
>
> If you try adding bars via the GUI plot dialog and select "Other"
> (to skip NBER recessions), then click "See example", you get an
> example, with a comment that includes "each non-comment line must
> contain two space-separated dates in the format YYYY:MM". If you
> supply dates in this format they will work with annual data.
I saw that comment, but I wouldn't know what the format YYYY:MM
means with annual data. Taking the year 2020 for example, would
the proper format be 2020:00 or 2020:01 or 2020:1 or ... ?
In the YYYY:MM format the monthly component runs from 01 to 12.
You're being invited to utilize a higher resolution in the time
dimension. Even when plotting annual data, you may happen to to know
that a certain state or episode started or ended (say) half way
through a year.
Allin