RE: plotting time series in Octave

[financial engineer]

> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:13:51 +0000
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> Subject: Re: plotting time series in Octave
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> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 01:16:52PM -0400, financial engineer wrote:
> >
> >
> > hi,
> > I have formatted the data as follows:
> > data="">> > plot(data)
> > set(gca(),'xtick',1:7)
> > datalabels=([C{1:7,1}])
> > set(gca(),'xticklabel',datalabels)
> >
> > the difficulty I am having is that this is what datalabels returns:
> > datalabels=2011-12-06 02:15:002011-12-06 02:16:002011-12-06 02:17:002011-12-06 02:18:00
> >
> > Can somebody please guide me on how to create my datalabels correctly, so I can use the date as my x-axis.
> >
>
> Hi,
> install the 'financial' package, so that you can use dateaxis(). I haven't tried it myself, but it seems to be the solution to your problem.
>
> octave> pkg -forge install financial

thanks Indium,
tried it....this is the error I get.

octave-3.2.4:1> pkg -forge install financial
warning: file -forge does not exist
warning: file financial does not exist

I think I should upgrade to the new octave version 3.6, but unfortunately don't have the instructions to build/install it on ubuntu 10.04....hopefully someone on the team can guide me on that.....Bobby