7:30 p.m.
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
10:26 p.m.
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, Sven Schreiber wrote:
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.
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.
However, we will now (in git, with snapshots to follow) accept two
plain years per line. In this case the month is implicitly 1 for the
first year and 12 for the second.
Allin Cottrell
10:36 p.m.
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 ... ?
However, we will now (in git, with snapshots to follow) accept two
plain years per line. In this case the month is implicitly 1 for the
first year and 12 for the second.
that's great!
thanks
sven
12:10 a.m.
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
12:26 a.m.
Am 22.01.2024 um 01:10 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
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.
Aha? Now that's a nice feature that I really did not expect! Will try it
out soon.
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