Re: [Gretl-users] Request: Matrix-plot feature
> Well, I suppose I can imagine cases where one would like to do
this
> (though it's not something I've ever wanted to do), but it's
> sufficiently uncommon that I'm inclined to repeat my previous
> advice: you can do it in a gnuplot command file (without too much
> difficulty) if you really want to.
Let me add: not only you can do it via gnuplot syntax, you can also
produce the two plots separately and arrange them side by side (or any
other way you like) in your document: I've almost always found the
"tabular" environment more than adequate to the purpose.
More generally, I agree that one of gretl's strong points (which I can
take absolutely no credit for) is its very very nice way of
interacting with gnuplot, but I'm strongly against going over the top
and acting as if gretl was some kind of gnuplot frontend.
Well, my initial purpose was to "translate" a couple of stata packages
(the svy- family) into gretl functions and by the way, wanted to add
some features the stata packages lack; I came out with this stuff of
plotting in the same graph many cumulative density functions of income -
commonly called the Pen's Parade - with population breakdown. I
absolutely agree that's an uncommon feature but that was just a wish to
provide users with a self-contained function producing different outputs
and graphs in a run.
By the way, the recent change in the gnuplot --matrix=whatever syntax
greatly simplified my script :)
Thank yoy again for your comments,
cheers,
artur