[Gretl-devel] fcast --plot option for (single equations within) systems

Hi, I'm currently reviewing and amending the documentation for forecasts in the guide. One thing I wasn't aware of before is that apparently it isn't possible to produce a forecast plot for a single variable in a VAR. What I mean is something like this: <hansl> open denmark smpl +0 -4 var 2 LRY LRM --silent fcast LRY --out-of-sample --plot=check.pdf # not supported </hansl> I don't really understand why this cannot be done, apart from historical path-dependent reasons. Note that I'm specifying a single variable from the VAR, so I'm only asking for a simple plot like in a single equation. The forecast results themselves are of course also there in gretl, because without the --plot option it works fine (as it should). AFAICS there is currently no way to produce a forecast plot from a VAR with a script, or am I missing something? (And I don't mean to reinvent the wheel by using the $fcast results "manually".) It would be very useful if this gap could be filled. Then for example we could also use a loop to put the results into the "multiplot" package. thanks sven