On Tue, 1 Oct 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote:
I'm not sure if this is what you have in mind, but
series x = s
gives you a plain numeric series x holding the encoding values of
string-valued series s.
Partly. The problem is, it's a one-way street: you can do "x = s", but you
can't do "s = x".
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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