Re: [Gretl-devel] string-valued series

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Artur T. wrote: >> - printing out an array of strings requires a loop if it has more than 9 >> elements. In some cases, this is VERY inconvenient. I see two way to go >> around this: either we introduce a "set" variable, which replaces the >> hard-wired limit at 10 we have now (something like "set arrayprint 20") or >> introduce an option to the print command ("--full" or similar). What do >> you guys prefer? > > What about introducing another function named head() as in Python's pandas > package? The user would call <head(x,n)> where > - x is either a series, list, string array or matrix > - n is an integer specifying to show the first 'n' entries (default: 5 or) > > The output is printed in column-format. > > Similarly, there exists the tail() function in pandas show the last n > entries. > > This would also be helpful when working with huge datasets where printing > output by <print x -o> already takes quite a while... That's a good idea, although I'm a bit wary of introducing new cmmands. How about options to "print"? That is, for example, print X --head=10 would be equivalent to smpl 1 10 print X --byobs smpl full except it'd be more efficient in that we don't really perform the subsampling. However, this would be ok when you print series/lists. The problem for arrays would remain. Unless we generalise the above to something like print A --start=3 --stop=12 Do you like it?