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Hello,

I am aware that I can change those labels manually, but I have tens of data sets and I would like to have it rather programmed. I have a number of country codes (i.e. US, EZ, JP) but I want to convert them into their full names in the spool as well as to make some other changes. Is there a way to do so? I tried to look up in this website but could not find any case like this. Thanks in advance.

You have to change the label in the graph before adding it to a spool.

I find the easiest way to do that is to modify the display names of the underlying series before making the graph.

Thanks for the fast response. I am pretty new to EViews, and I searched through the forum to find out that the commands to rename series are:

%dispname = myseries.@displayname
%myname = name_of_series.@attr("originalname")
rename {series name} {display name}

But I run into an error every time I try. For example, I wrote %Japan CAI = caihat_jp.@Japan CAI, because I wan to change caihat_jp into Japan CAI, but the program says %Japan CAI is not defined or illegal. Could you just write one code for me (series name = caihat_jp, display name=Japan CAI) so that I can replicate that code? Thank you.

You set a displayname with:

Many thanks! (it works)