Hello All,
 
I am ex-Stata user trying to work my way into gretl – though slowly.  I have a panel data set in Excel for 56 state counties (identified by a unique county code 01 – 56) over 51 years (annual data 1990 – 2040).  I seem to be able to load the data set into gretl and get it to recognize the panel nature of the data, but I can’t seem to get it to acknowledge the labels for those years (i.e. 1990 – 2040) when using commands such as gnuplot for graphing.
 
For example, when I load the data into gretl, it recognizes the panel as “Panel: Full range 1:01 – 56:51”.  When I restrict the full data set to say two counties and graph them (using “gnuplot County1 County2 –time-series –with-lines”) the data are plotted on a graph with an x-axis scale from  1-51 instead of 1990 – 2040.  How can I get it to recognize the data as that will create x-axis labels in –time-series graphs automatically with the respective dates rather than the periods 1 – 51? 
 
Thank you for your time on this!
 
Joe