Hello once more,
I was trying to get some shaded bars similar to recession bars with the
usual plotting GUI apparatus, but in the context of annual data. I
created pure text files with pairs of dates (years) as instructed; the
contents is like this:
2015 2016
2018 2019
2021 2022
Gretl did not accept this, however, saying the format specification
isn't met.
Then I thought the years could be mistaken for plain obs numbers, so I
tried the index numbers instead (the dataset has 11 obs):
3 4
6 7
9 10
Same error message.
Is the "bars" facility perhaps not really hooked up or supported for
annual data?
thanks
sven