Re: [Gretl-devel] Midas syntax, small issue
On Sun, 17 Sep 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 13.09.2017 um 21:44 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
> I don't want to open too many Midas threads, so I'm kind of hijacking my
> own: Here's another issue, but this time it looks like a bug to me.
And yet another Midas thing, is it intended that the lag numbers
in the mds() terms cannot be given as integer variables? See this
example:
<hansl>
open gdp_midas
list mi = ld_indpro_m?
midasreg ld_qgdp const ld_qgdp(-1) ; mds(mi, 0,2, 0) # works
# The same with variables
start = 0
stop = 2
midasreg ld_qgdp const ld_qgdp(-1) ; mds(mi, start,stop, 0) # fails
</hansl>
Intended? Well, it's just not implemented (yet). I kept some things
simple in a first-pass implementation.
There's a certain amount of redundancy here: do we actually need
both mds() and mdsl() anyway? The hflags() function lets you
specify minlag and maxlag any way you wish.
Allin