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Program Legend text
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 7:26 am
by mboldin
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)
Re: Program Legend text
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 7:39 am
by EViews Gareth
The easiest way is to change the display name of the underlying series prior to creating the graph.
Re: Program Legend text
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:55 am
by mboldin
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
Re: Program Legend text
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:57 am
by EViews Gareth
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}