IRIS Toolbox Reference Manual

## irisset

Change configurable IRIS options

#### Syntax

    irisset(Option,Value)
    irisset(Option,Value,Option,Value,...)

#### Input arguments

- `Option` [ char ] - Name of the IRIS configuration option that will be modified.

- `Value` [ ... ] - New value that will be assigned to the option.

#### Modifiable IRIS configuration options

##### Dates and formats

- `'dateFormat='` [ char | `'YPF'` ] - Date format used to display dates in the command window, CSV databases, and reports. Note that the default date format for graphs is controlled by the `'plotdateformat='` option. The default 'YFP' means that the year, frequency letter, and period is displayed. See also help on `dat2str` for more date formatting details. The `'dateformat='` option is also found in many IRIS functions whenever it is relevant, and can be used to overwrite the `'irisset='` settings.

- `'freqLetters='` [ char | `'YHQBMW'` ] - Six letters used to represent the six possible frequencies of the IRIS dates: yearly, half-yearly, quarterly, bi-monthly, monthly, and weekly, such as the `'Q'` in `'2010Q1'` denoting a quarter.

- `'months='` [ cellstr | `{'January',...,'December'}` ] - Twelve strings representing the names of the twelve months; this option can be used whenever you want to replace the default English names with your local language. .

- `'plotDateFormat='` [ char | `{'Y','Y:P','Y:P','Y:P','Y:P','Y:P'}` ]

- Default date formats used to display dates in graphs including graphs in reports. The default date formats are 6 strings, one for each of the date frequencies, in the following order: yearly (1), half-yearly (2), quarterly (4), bimonthly (6), monthly (12), and weekly (52). Dates with indeterminate frequency are printed as plain numbers.

- `'tseriesFormat='` [ char | empty ] - Format string for displaying time series data on the screen. See help on the Matlab `sprintf` function for how to set up format strings. If empty the default format of the `num2str` function is used.

- `tseriesMaxWSpace='` [ numeric | `5` ] - Maximum number of white spaces printed between individual columns of a multivariate tseries object on the screen.

- `'standinMonth='` [ `'first'` | `'last'` | numeric ] - This option specifies which month will be used to represent lower-frequency periods (such as a quarters) when a month-displaying format is used in `'dateformat='`.

##### External tools used by IRIS

- `'pdflatexPath='` [ char ] - Location of the `pdflatex.exe` program. This program is called to compile report and publish m-files. By default, IRIS attempts to locate `pdflatex.exe` by running TeX's `kpsewhich`, and `which` on Unix platforms.

- `'epstopdfPath='` [ char ] - Location of the `epstopdf.exe` program. This program is called to convert EPS graphics files to PDFs in reports.

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