On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote:
I'm adding below a script that creates a period ID using these
variables. Perhaps it ought to be possible to do this more easily --
and maybe in fact it is (Jack?) but anyway it's something of a
showcase for gretl's current string-handling capabilities.
Would it be possible to post to the list at least a subset of John's data,
so can the audience can try a few things out? ;)
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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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