Re: [Gretl-users] problems with daily data
Am 21.05.2014 15:47, schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Wed, 21 May 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Thanks Jack; I tried this more compactly with:
> <hansl>
> genr dummy # BTW, need a new syntax for this IMHO
> series we = dummy_6 || dummy_7
> </hansl>
> but apparently the daily dummies are allocated "randomly", i.e. dummy_1
> starts with whatever is the first obs in the workfile (or sample?), not
> Monday or Sunday. Could this be changed perhaps?
One of the things I would very much like to kill in 2.0 is "genr dummy";
actually, the "genr" keyword itself would go, if I had unlimited power ;)
Agreed (well, maybe deprecated and undocumented would be enough...); but
there should still be a script way of creating seasonal/periodic
dummies, and currently there is no alternative, or is there?
-s