Re: [Gretl-devel] bundles and series

Herewith a note on the status of series as members of bundles. This is not well documented and -- I have to admit -- was not very well thought out at first. The basic point is that series are not exactly "first-class citizens" in bundles. With most objects that can be put into bundles, you should be able to get exactly the same object back out; if that fails it's a bug that ought to be (and can be) fixed. But series are different: a series can exist only as an element of a dataset, and the "meaning" of a series is dependent on the characteristics of the dataset (cross sectional sample of a certain size, time series of some definite frequency, panel with some definite time-series dimension).