Re: [Gretl-devel] Re: Missing values in mle and functions - setobs issue

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Gordon Hughes wrote: The error you're seeing is due to some sort of bad interaction between setobs and restricting the sample within a function. Plain setobs by itself seems to do the right thing (except that it doesn't automatically revert on exit from a function), as in this example: <script> function xpanel (series x) printf "xpanel: datatype = %d (should be 3)\n", $datatype genr xunit=$unit genr time setobs 1 1 --cross-section printf "xpanel: datatype = %d (should be 1)\n", $datatype setobs xunit time --panel-vars printf "xpanel: datatype = %d (should be 3)\n", $datatype end function open greene14_1 printf "caller: datatype = %d (should be 3)\n", $datatype xpanel(C) printf "caller: datatype = %d (should be 3)\n", $datatype </script> Running the above produces: <output> caller: datatype = 3 (should be 3) ? xpanel(C) xpanel: datatype = 3 (should be 3) xpanel: datatype = 1 (should be 1) xpanel: datatype = 3 (should be 3) caller: datatype = 3 (should be 3) </output> I'll investigate the "restrict" interaction. Allin.