Re: [Gretl-users] passing a series name to a function

On Thursday 14 June 2007 17:37:32 Sven Schreiber wrote: >> ... >> For example obtaining names "income_trend" ... when applied to "income" >> and names "consume_trend"... when applied to consume. > See py4gretl_vecdecomp inside the function package with the same name on > the package server for an example. > > An excerpt: > > loop foreach i endogenous --quiet > series $i_SWP = sw[,i] > list result = result $i_SWP > series $i_GGperma = GGperma[,i] > list result = result $i_GGperma > series $i_GGtrans = GGtrans[,i] > list result = result $i_GGtrans > endloop > Ok, but in that example "endogenous" is a list, so this implies that the user should define it first: list endogenous = income list components = decomp(endogenous) and I think that, given that my function does not need more than one input variable, gretl should have a way to obtain the same effect with only one line: list components = decomp(income) May be the function "varname()" of the "sprintf" command can help in doing something like that?