[Gretl-devel] Re: String-valued series encoding
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:> > Hi all,
>>
>> I've had a recurring problem with string-valued series, and I'm
struggling
>> to find a solution. [...]
[ plus hansl ]
> Wel, I doubt whether you'd consider the following more elegant than your own
> version!
[ plus hansl ]
Sorry, I should have looked at your code more carefully before
replying. I now see that I pretty much just reinvented what you had.
Anyway, I'm wondering if it might be worth having a built-in function
to this effect -- maybe stralign(), taking a list argument?
Hmmm
the more I think about this, the more I think we
- ought to get rid of the limitation on assigning to a string-values
series (somehow, don't ask me how)
- ought to have some way to de-stringify a series (that we don't have at
the moment, if I'm not mistaken)
Moreover, it would be nice to have freq and xtab sort the values
alphabetically for string-valued series. I'd love to have a go this
myself, but I'm literally flooded with teaching this week.
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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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