Re: [Gretl-users] boxplot(s) within a loop
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, artur tarassow wrote:
Wow, it works fine now! ;)
But, I think one little error remains. The option *.pdf does not produce any graphs.
output:
<<<
? gnuplot LHUR --with-lines --time-series --output=LHUR_fig.pdf
set term pdf
^
"/home/artur/gretl/LHUR_fig.gp", line 1: unknown or ambiguous terminal type;
type just 'set terminal' for a list
<<<
Your copy of gnuplot does not support pdf output. This is quite common in
linux-land, as most distros (eg Debian, Ubuntu) ship a precompiled version
of gnuplot with pdf output disabled.
I'm not sure what the best thing to do is. We have the following options:
a) leave things as they are now, (ie let gnuplot fail) but issue a more
informative statement
b) remove the pdf option altogether, since we cannot be sure that it works
c) do a run-time check (I don't like this)
d) do a one-time check and store its results into the user's preferences
somehow
Opinions?
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti