[Gretl-devel] Re: x-range for scatters using daily data
On Fri, 28 Feb 2020, Artur Tarassow wrote:
Hi all,
the following script yields a plot for which the x-range goes far beyond
2020-02-28 when using daily data. I use latest git version on Ubuntu 19.10.
<hansl>
clear
set verbose off
nulldata 40
setobs 7 2020-01-20
delete index
series a = normal()
series b = normal()
list L = dataset
# x-axis shows all the way long up to 2021
scatters L --with-lines --output=display
</hansl>
Yes, that's not good. Handling daily data via "scatters" in time
series mode is not so easy. The problem is "fixed" in current git,
but the fix could perhaps be improved: right now what happens is
that the x-axis just gives the 1-based numbers of the observations.
Maybe we could find a way to show dates, but there's not much space
available in "scatters". At least now we don't over-extend the
x-axis.
Allin