[Gretl-devel] Re: GUI: choose sample via dummy

Am 17.04.2020 um 13:05 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> perhaps we discussed this before: While it is possible in the GUI >> (menus) to define a dummy indicating the currently active sample, it >> doesn't seem directly possible to set the sample based on such a dummy. >> I had problems explaining to new users why that is. >> >> I know you can go to Sample/restrict by condition and then type >> something like mydum==1 in the text field. I also know how to do that in >> a script. But wouldn't it be more natural if in Sample/choose range >> there was a way to simply pick the dummy variable and use that >> automatically? > > Uhm, is this a trick question? The dialog you get with "Restrict, > Based on Criterion" has a radio button that does exactly what you say. That would explain why I had déjà-vus about this topic. But unfortunately I don't have that button here. This is 2020a on Windows 10. I will try to cleanly install 2020b and see what happens.