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Hello,

On changing to Eviews 7 (from eviews 6) I found a problem with the command "BAR(l)". I used it in Eviews 6 to change one of the variables displayed into bars (instead of a line).

However, with Eviews 7, although it did change the variable into bars, it also erased the information about the sample, thereby going back to the default sample. As a result, I get a graph with just a piece of data in the middle, instead of the neatly displayed graph I got with eviews 6.

I reckon this problem has to do with the new "graph updating feature", that updates the graph when the type is changed (e.g. when I change it into a bar graph, as with the BAR(l) command).

After checking "EViews 7 Object Reference", I tried to use the command setupdate(o) to turn off autoupdate. However, it does not seem to have any effect.

Does anyone have suggestions?

Thank you in advance,

José Pimentel
MONTEPIO bank
Research Department

Could you post the code you're using?

Hello, here is the code:

1.

Smpl 2000 2011
freeze(GRA_US_GDP) US_GDP.line
GRA_US_GDP.setupdate(o)

(this gets me the graph in the image attached named "good")

smpl @all
GRA_US_GDP.BAR(L)

(this gets me the graph in the image attached named "bad")

* As you can see, despite the cmd "freeze", the graph changed the sample. Even though I issued the cmd "setupdate(0)".

That looks like a bug in EViews. We'll see if we can get it fixed.

Indeed! Thank you. Do you have any idea when it will be corrected?

We usually fix bugs within a day or do. This one is going to mightily tricky though, so might take longer.

Should be fixed in today's patch.

Tks a lot!