Re: [Gretl-devel] $depvar not a series?
Am 01.07.2015 um 17:41 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Wed, 1 Jul 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> eval $depvar # gives LRM
"Use versus mention", as W. V. Quine has it. Neither string variables
nor string literals are ever acceptable as identifiers for series,
matrices or whatever, in gretl commands. You need the unquoted name, or
(for series only, in suitable contexts) the ID number. The above is
basically equivalent to trying
series s1 = "LRM"
Ok thanks for the explanation. If I were picky I might say that 'eval
$depvar' should then print out '"LRM"' instead of just
'LRM', but I'm not.
Here are two ways of doing what you wanted:
string tmp = $depvar
series s1 = @tmp
I had actually tried '@$depvar' but that got gretl choking.
# use the $ylist accessor (cleaner)
Yeah if I hadn't stopped reading the $ylist help after the first
sentence I would have gotten there myself...
thanks,
sven