Re: [Gretl-devel] Regarding the dataset command (Was: Feature request for sorting of variables)
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I quite like the "keep" idea (handy if you have a dataset
> containing a lot of "junk"), and I also like the idea of moving
> "delete" (for variables) into place under the "dataset"
command.
>
> The old "delete" command could be kept as an alias, at least for a
> while.
>
> As for deleteobs and keepobs, these seem to me somewhat
> redundant given the smpl command and the ability to save the
> dataset.
Ok. Deal?
In principle ;-) But adding list-parsing to the dataset command
is not trivial and might break things. And "delete" can also be
used for matrices. So I think I'll not attempt this right now;
probably after the next release.
Allin.