Re: st: RE: Modifying -irf graph- output

["Michael S. Hanson" <mshanson@mac.com>]

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[Note: I have edited my original questions and Scott's reply to  
clarify further comments.]

On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Scott Merryman wrote:


> On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:27 PM, I wrote:
> > 	1. How does one add a title to the whole plot?
> >
> > 	2. How does one change the text of and/or remove the legend and  
> > the note?
> >
> > 	3. How does one change/control the axis labels and titles?  In
> > particular, I want to either change or delete the text that reads
> > "step" by default beneath the final row of subplots.
> For 1. and 2. take a look at -byopts- option and the axis title can  
> be added at the end.
>
> For example:
>
> irf graph irf, irf(test_irf) byopts(title(My Title) note("") ///
>  legend(off)) xtitle(Years) ytitle(My ytitle)
	Thanks, Scott -- I had misinterpreted what -byopts- was designed to  
do, so I had not explored that option.  -byopts(title())- resolves my  
first question above.  I appreciate your or anyone else's input on  
aspects of these remaining questions:

	2. -byopts(legend())- seems to support only a subset of the options  
of -legend-:  basically, I have been able to get -off- and -pos()- to  
work, but none of the other options of -legend- I have tried (e.g., - 
order()-, -stack-, -size()-, -symx()-).  Is this a "feature"?  Or am  
I missing something?

	3. The -xtitle- option (*outside* of -byopts-) addresses in part  
what I was after in the third question.  However, -xtitle- only  
applies to the whole final row of subplots, as does -xlabel-.  Is  
there a way to modify the x-axes on the other rows?  (Or the y-axes  
for any column other than the first?)

	4. An additional question, if I may be so bold:  I would like to  
change the subtitles at the top of each subplot in a way that still  
conveys which response and impulse are plotted.  For example, instead  
of "test_irf, lconsumption, lincome", I would like the (1,2) subplot  
to read, say, "Response of log(Y) to a log(C) shock".  The -subtitle-  
option will allow one to change the text at the top of each subplot,  
but I haven't figured out how to specify the response and impulse  
variables within this option.  Perhaps if it were possible to extract  
specific elements of r(response) and r(impulse)...?  Also, I had  
hoped that labeling the variables would change what was shown in the  
subtitles, but (apparently) to no avail.

	Thanks again for your assistance.

                                        -- Mike


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