Re: [Gretl-users] new things in CVS
Am 21.10.2008 16:44, Allin Cottrell schrieb:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Talha Yalta wrote:
> Also, could it be so that we could also add dashed lines etc?
> Well, ahem, also, ahem, could the colors of the lines after the
> second line be settable as well, by any chance?
Setting the color is probably easier than setting a dash pattern.
I'll experiment.
Now that Talha has openly pronounced these feature requests I must say
these have been on my wishlist as well for some time already, and I
constantly (well, not really, let's say repeatedly) struggle with the
workarounds.
I found that setting the colors for the lines beyond no. 3 is
_relatively_ easy by editing the gnuplot plot commands. (Save graph to
session as icon -> right-click icon in session window and select edit
plot commands.) But still you need some knowledge of how the colors you
want are encoded.
For the dashes I really haven't found any workaround either, gnuplot (or
the pdf backend, whatever) strikes me as not very user-friendly there.
That's why I was so interested the other day in using R as a graphing
backend via the new R script feature in gretl. The gnuplot integration
in gretl is a remarkable achievement and is good enough for many things,
but not for all of my graphical needs, frankly. What I don't know of
course, is whether the way to go is to refine the gnuplot link or to
push the R integration.
cheers,
sven