Re: [Gretl-devel] minor issues

Datum: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:32:47 -0400 (EDT) Von: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; An: Gretl development <gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; Betreff: Re: [Gretl-devel] minor issues

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote: > The following script gives an error: > > # meta parameters (stacked time series) > N = 5000 > T = 5 > size = N*T > nulldata size > setobs T 1:1 --stacked-time-series > > Obviously, setobs doesn't accept a variable for the periodicity. > It could be just a missing feature, but in the realm of gretl's > versatile scripting language I'm actually inclined to call it a > bug. The failure here is over-determined: (a) up till now, setobs has not accepted a variable for its first argument, only a numerical value. That's now fixed in CVS.

subsequently, "T" has been deleted by the time setobs is called. We have a "preserve" option for nulldata. At present this only preserves existing matrices. I think it should probably preserve existing scalars too, but I'm not going to attempt that for 1.7.6, I'll put it on the list for 1.7.7.