Sorry. I get that error, too, when there are no spaces between “x*y”

Could you try “ x * y” ?

From: gretl-devel-bounces@lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-devel-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Summers, Peter
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 2:51 PM
To: Gretl development
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] Possible issue with genseries()

I get a different error in the console: “The symbol ‘x*y’ is undefined” (same system & build date)

PS

From: gretl-devel-bounces@lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-devel-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Logan Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:30 PM
To: Gretl development (gretl-devel@lists.wfu.edu)
Subject: [Gretl-devel] Possible issue with genseries()

Hello,

The following script fails on gretl cvs build date 2015-01-07 running on Win 7 64 bit while the example code in help works fine.

set echo off

nulldata 50

series x = normal()

series y = normal()

list list1 = null

string SeriesName

loop i = 1.. 10

    SeriesName = sprintf("test%d",i)

    list1 += genseries(SeriesName, x * y)

endloop

list list1 print

it yields the following error

gretl version 1.10.0cvs

Current session: 2015-01-07 14:20

periodicity: 1, maxobs: 50

observations range: 1 to 50

Generated series x (ID 2)

Generated series y (ID 3)

Generated list list1

Data types not conformable for operation

>> list1 += genseries(sprintf("test%d",i), x * y)

Also, I cannot figure out how to reliably replicate this. But sometimes gretl terminates unexpectedly on the second time a script is run when something (I am not sure what) is wrong with a genseries() call. Sorry I cannot yet give more info on this, but I will keep experimenting.

Thanks,

Logan