Re: [Gretl-users] How to insert variable labels?

> In a time series context, how may I insert variable labels (from a .txt > file) into a dataset via a script or console? I know that using the GUI I > can choose "Data -> Variable labels" and then select the .txt file with the > descriptions. A couple of recent tweaks in CVS (to the sscanf function and the setinfo command) make this a bit easier than before. Example follows, where we assume that labels.txt contains one variable label per line, for each of the substantive variables in the dataset. <script> nulldata 10 series x1 = normal() series x2 = normal() series x3 = normal() series x4 = normal() string labeltext = readfile("labels.txt") string vname, label loop i=2..5 -q sscanf(labeltext, "%63[^\n]", label) setinfo i -d "@label" labeltext = labeltext + strlen(label) + 1 endloop </script> Thanks for the script. I will try to use it inside my script.

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