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Hi, The below works fine but is a bit tedious, especially in case of more countries. Is there a way to enter the x- and y-coordinates in a string and insert in a grtext instruction? spgraph SCATTER(hlabel="2006",vlabel="2018", STYLE=symbols, OVERLAY=LINES, noovkey,ovsamescale) 2 ...

Hi, I'm comparing durations of three recessions for the same series (y) since 1990. The comparisions are made in terms of percentage deviations from the peaks before the recessions and durations in months before pre-crisis peaks are reached again. Out of this series, y, I have created three series: ...

Hi, I try to calculate a diffusion index for a number of series. Some begin in January 1990 and some in January 2005. The data is in an excel file. I'm not sure I have understood the way Rats treats missing values. I had the impression that Rats would interpret blank cells (or NA's) as missing value...

It works fine until the date for the base of the index but not afterwards. Here's an example that uses some data from the Enders' files. cal 1959 1 4 all 2001:1 OPEN DATA "\Enders\Money_dem.xls" DATA(FORMAT=XLS,ORG=COLUMNS) 1959:01 2001:01 DATE GDP RGDP M2 M3 TB3mo TB1yr open data a:\money...

How would that look if you want to create indices, with reference to a specific entry, e.g. 2000:1, for a number of series?
I tried a number of variations based on a do loop with the series as i = 1,n but that didn't work.

Any suggestions?