Re: [Gretl-devel] remove missings permanently destroys time series structure

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 01.03.2019 um 20:27 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> tried to throw out all obs with missings (one series only in a time >>> series dataset), and when ticking "make permanent" I got an undated >>> dataset. >>> >>> This is with 2019a. >> >> Sven, could you give an idea of what you expected here? Seems to me that >> while discarding a series containing NAs would leave you with a time >> series dataset, discarding observations is bound to destroy the time >> series property (unless the NAs were just at the start and/or end of the >> data). > > That's what I meant, an "interior" sample with valid observations and then > some junk portions of NA before and after the valid block. At least that's > what I presumed, maybe I have to check... OK, on a little simulation I see that case is not being handled correctly -- i.e. time series structure not preserved on making the restriction permanent. Fix should be forthcoming before long.