Re: [Gretl-devel] slight genr problems
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:
on 1.7.9 and current cvs I discovered two minor glitches when I
used the supplied example data sw_ch12.gdt for teaching.
First, when I try to create a new variable referring to the lag
of the price variable PUNEW, but mistakenly change the name to
lower case as in 'heyho=punew(-1)', I get an alert dialog
window, but with a rather obscure content, namely:
> genr heyho=punew(
What I would expect is an error message saying something like
'unknown variable punew'.
Yes: this should now be fixed.
Next, when I construct the inflation rate as
'heyho=(PUNEW-PUNEW(-1))/PUNEW(-1)', the variable heyho is
listed in the GUI as if it were the lag of PUNEW, I mean it's
not immediately visible, but the little triangle appears before
PUNEW and when you click it you get to see 'heyho' with the
variable ID being indented.
Are you sure? I can't replicate that. (Trying both in English
and in German.)
Allin.