[Gretl-devel] Re: x-range for scatters using daily data

On Sun, 1 Mar 2020, Artur Tarassow wrote: >> 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. > > Maybe its beneficial to rotate the x-labels to save some space. But > it has no priority I guess. Something like this, perhaps? <hansl> open IT_companies.gdt --frompkg=MGARCH scatters 2 3 4 5 --output=&quot;(a)dotdir/x.gp&quot; s = readfile(&quot;(a)dotdir/x.gp&quot;) # generate daily xtics ntics = 6 v = round(seq(1, $nobs, $nobs/ntics)) xtics = "set xtics (" loop i = 1 .. ntics --quiet     vi = v[i]     xtics ~= sprintf("\"%s\" %d", obslabel(vi), vi)     if i<ntics         xtics ~= ", "     endif endloop xtics ~= ") rotate by -45" # modify gnuplot script and plot s = regsub(s, "set xtics (.*)", xtics) outfile &quot;(a)dotdir/y.gp&quot; --quiet     print s end outfile gnuplot --input=&quot;(a)dotdir/y.gp&quot; --output=display </hansl>