On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Sven Schreiber wrote: > gretl successfully imported excel files with data for me, where to my > amazement the first column which contained the definitions of the > categories was automatically imported as "observation markers" (in > gretl-speak). We're talking about histogram data here, i.e. the > categories are ranges and the data values are the (absolute) number of > occurrences. > > My question: Is it possible to make these observation markers appear as > tick labels on the x-axis, when I do a plot of my variable against the > index variable to get the visual shape of the histogram? > > Hope I made myself clear here.
You do. But the answer is that there's no built-in way to get gretl to use observation markers as xtic labels; as things stand you'd have to add them to the gnuplot input file manually. Allin Cottrell
