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G'day all! I've used REPORT with the "special=onestart/twostar/threestar" option to generate lovely tables that indicate statistically significant test statistics in the usual way. When I select everything in the report window and use the menu to copy the results in as a TeX table, the tab...

Merci, Tom.
Much appreciated.

Lots! Here's the code that sets up the vector that is passed to XLABEL DECLARE VECTOR[STRING] MTDATE(269) DO I=1,269 IF %MOD(I,30)==1 COMPUTE MTDATE(I) = %CONCAT("19",%STRING(MTGYEAR(I))) END DO I So only 1 in every 30 strings is non-null. The reason for the odd timing is that every observ...

TomDoan wrote:Those are controlled by the AXISLABELS choice.

Yes, I know.
But AXISLABELS doesn't only change the XLABELS; as I noted, it also changes the vertical axis labels (which I don't need to shrink).

Here's an example (in RGF format) of the problem. Although my labels are few and small, RATS starts to stagger them over multiple lines long before it runs out of space between them. (It will dynamically rearrange the date labels depending on the size of your screen, so you may have to shrink the gr...

Thanks, Tom. As I mentioned, I'm using the XLABEL= option on GRAPH() to supply the labels for the time axis. Oddly, the font size doesn't seem to be affected by changes in the HLABEL or the MATRIXLABELS font size on GRPARM. AXISLABELING works, but then it also changes the vertical axis. Is it possib...

I'm working with a time series that has irregularly-spaced observations (e.g. number of observations per year varies) that I'm displaying with GRAPH. I'm using the XLABEL option to label the observations appropriately. My problem is that I have far too many observations (>250) to label all of them, ...

Many thanks, Tom! I always enjoy learning by studying your code.

So in this example, you're using GSET instead of SET only because you're using a series of INTEGER rather than a conventional series)?

I'm trying to reproduce a data transformation used in Romer and Romer(2004) "A New Measure of Monetary Shocks: Derivation and Implications" American Economic Review, 94(4), p. 1055- Their data set is downloadable from http://eml.berkeley.edu//~dromer/#data in .xlsx format. They start with ...

I have several time series with different scales that I'd like to graph together on a common X-axis. Now, I could just use SPGRAPH(VFIELDS= # of series). But for clarity, I'm wondering whether I can then - Suppress the x-axes on all but the bottom graph - Suppress the blank vertical space between gr...

Okay, so to help make it easier for someone to try to reproduce their work in RATS, you can find their article at

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~ap172/Patt ... S_2012.pdf

and Patton's MATLAB code for it at

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~ap172/PT_b ... _feb14.zip

Anyone have code for some of the rationality bounds tests proposed by Patton and Timmermann "Forecast Rationality Tests Based on a Multi-Horizon Bounds", JBES, 30(1), p. 1

Can I pass Reports to a procedure by address? Are there any examples of how to do this? I'm running a procedure that produces its own detailed report. However, because I'll be calling it >100 times, I'd also like to create another report that adds one line (with a few key statistics) every time I ca...

I'm trying to convert RATS graphs to .pdf format, without success. First, I tried simply printing the graph using my PDF printer as the default printing device. After asking me to supply a filename, RATS announces that it has encountered an error and must exit. The program then crashes and exits, wi...

Oops! Never mind.....the problem was my code, not RATS.