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mboldin
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Program Legend text

Postby mboldin » Thu Aug 14, 2014 7:26 am

Can I change the legend text by programming means-- not through the GRAPH Options GUI

Ie something like

plot(legend= 'Unemplyement rate', 'Inflation rate') series1 series2

Just being able to use the series description, not the variable name, might be enough (assuming I can edit the description)

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Re: Program Legend text

Postby EViews Gareth » Thu Aug 14, 2014 7:39 am

The easiest way is to change the display name of the underlying series prior to creating the graph.
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Re: Program Legend text

Postby mboldin » Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:55 am

OK so I would do something like

series1.displayname "Text here"

What if I wanted to use the series description or the description from another series ?

Is there global option to display the description in the legend ?

And is something like this possible

series1.displayname "Ratio of" + series2a@description + " and " + series2b@description

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Re: Program Legend text

Postby EViews Gareth » Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:57 am

You'd have to build up a string containing the exact text you wanted to use as the displayname, then apply that.

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%dispstring = "Ratio of" + series2a.@description + " and " + series2b.@description
series1.displayname {%dispstring}
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