[Gretl-devel] Re: --panel-time option not working for all frequencies

On Sun, 29 Sep 2019, Artur Tarassow wrote: > Dear all, > > it took me a while to understand that $setobs $setobs ? I think you mean $obsdate. > is only applicable for panel data once the time-dimension of the > panel data set is set using the setobs command with the > '--panel-time' option. > > However, this is only seems to work for annual and quarterly data > currently. And monthly. It was supposed to work for daily data too, but there was a little problem blocking that, now fixed in git.

> See the following example which returns empty series for frequencies > 5 and 7: > > <hansl> > set verbose off > open grunfeld.gdt -q > > # DOESN'T WORK > setobs 5 2000:1 --panel-time > series obsdate = $obsdate > print obsdate -o --range=1:20 > > # DOESN'T WORK > setobs 7 2000:1 --panel-time > series obsdate = $obsdate > print obsdate -o --range=1:20 > </hansl> But even with daily dates now working, these examples will not work. It looks like you're trying to define a frequency of 5 or 7 observations per year, and gretl doesn't know how to attach dates in such cases. The following, however, will work: <hansl> open grunfeld.gdt setobs 5 2019-01-01 --panel-time series obsdate = $obsdate print obsdate -o --range=1:20 </hansl>