[Gretl-devel] Re: String-valued series encoding

On Tue, 1 Oct 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:> > Hi all, > > > > > > I've had a recurring problem with string-valued series, and I'm > > > struggling > > > to find a solution. [...] > [ plus hansl ] > > > Wel, I doubt whether you'd consider the following more elegant than your > > own > > version! > [ plus hansl ] > > Sorry, I should have looked at your code more carefully before > replying. I now see that I pretty much just reinvented what you had. > > Anyway, I'm wondering if it might be worth having a built-in function > to this effect -- maybe stralign(), taking a list argument? Hmmm the more I think about this, the more I think we - ought to get rid of the limitation on assigning to a string-values series (somehow, don't ask me how) - ought to have some way to de-stringify a series (that we don't have at the moment, if I'm not mistaken)

Moreover, it would be nice to have freq and xtab sort the values alphabetically for string-valued series. I'd love to have a go this myself, but I'm literally flooded with teaching this week.