Re: [Gretl-devel] bug (?) with max on list

If you mean 'vector' instead of a matrix with more than one row/col, that's what Allin referred to in his earlier answer. (legacy thing)

Am 15.03.2018 um 10:49 schrieb > oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net: >>> eval max(deflist(1,2,3)) >>> </hansl> >> [Allin:] >> Yes, should work according to the doc. This usage is an exception to the >> rule (recently enforced properly) that series can never be referred to >> by ID number when they appear as function arguments. But since the usage >> is stated to be OK I have re-enabled it. [Oleh:] > It seems there are somewhat different rules work: > > eval max(deflist(1,2,3)) gives error since > > eval deflist(1,2,3) gives error: deflist requires > declaring named list at the left-hand side No, it was a bug and should work in the future, see above. > In eval max(20 * ones(3,2)) '20' seems to be > irrelevant: Yes, I just wanted to make sure those numbers could not be mistaken for series IDs (in a workfile with just 2 or 3 series). eval max(ones(3,2)) will give an error > Statistical functions except for sum() (max, min, mean, median, etc.) > all works only with vector; one should evaluate max(vec(ones(3,2)) etc If you mean 'vector' instead of a matrix with more than one row/col, that's what Allin referred to in his earlier answer. (legacy thing) (Because those functions do not _only_ work with a vector [or series], they also work on lists, but with a slightly different meaning, see the doc.) cheers, sven _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel@lists.wfu.eduhttp://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel