El 27/10/10 22:23, Henrique Andrade escribió: > Dear Gretl Team, > > Today I'd tried to use the "append" command to add a new series to my > session. The series start at 2008/06/04 and end at 2010/10/19. They are > the same, with the exception that the second one, called "ìncompleto", > does not have the observations from July 2008 (more exactly, from > 01/07/2008 to 31/07/2008). > > Please take a look at the following commads: > > open completo.gdt > append incompleto.gdt > > The sequence above gives me a very odd result. Originally, both the series > end in 2010/10/19, but after the "append" command, the series "incompleto" > is ending at a different date: 2010/09/16. > > I hope I was clear enough. Sometimes English language is hard for me :-(. > > Best regards, > Henrique C. de Andrade > Doutorando em Economia Aplicada > Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul > www.ufrgs.br/ppge <http://www.ufrgs.br/ppge> Henrique, I remember in principle "append" was designed to add new variables with exactly the same dates as your current dataset. But now I see in the manual this behaviour has been flexibilized in the las times. The manual for the append command says: "The appended data may take the form of either additional observations on variables already present in the dataset, or new variables. in the case of adding variables, compatibility requires either (a) that the number of observations for the new data equals that for the current data, or (b) that the new data carries clear observation information so that gretl can work out how to place the values." a) is the traditional way of working for the "append" command. I am sure Allin may clarify this, but probably b) is more recent and is not much tested. May be you have discovered a bug. In any way, opening (directly) your file incomplete.gdt I am surprised because, for the missing data, in displaying the values (right click and "show values") I was expecting to see the label of the date and "NA", but I find this: incompleto 2008/06/04 454.76 2008/06/05 457.05 2008/06/06 460.57 2008/06/09 459.68 2008/06/10 457.57 2008/06/11 461.75 2008/06/12 461.82 2008/06/13 464.89 2008/06/16 465.95 2008/06/17 465.50 2008/06/18 467.82 2008/06/19 467.73 2008/06/20 469.86 2008/06/23 470.55 2008/06/24 471.01 2008/06/25 471.65 2008/06/26 477.66 2008/06/27 478.21 2008/06/30 476.69 2008/08/01 457.77 2008/08/04 448.58 2008/08/05 447.56 ... May be the error is in the way you have defined this series, or in the way the series have been saved? -- Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA APLICADA III (ECONOMETRÍA Y ESTADÍSTICA) UPV/EHU Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre, 83 | 48015 BILBAO T.: +34 946013732 | F.: +34 946013754 www.ea3.ehu.es _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel

In fact, try open completo.gdt append incompleto2.gdt with the attached file incompleto2.gdt which I have formed deleting the appropiate obs. in completo.gdt You will see all is working Ok.