Re: [Gretl-users] Enter date to gretl system
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Nabil Brandl wrote:
It is not easy to enter or import date to Gretl system. The only way
to
enter date is through time series function. It is a weak side in Gretl.
I'm not sure what you mean here. In importing time series data,
gretl will typically pick up date information provided it is given
in a consistent and reasonably standard form, in the first column of
the imported data.
If dates cannot be read in this way, they can be easily imposed
using the "setobs" command. The two functions obsnum() and
obslabel() can be used to move between a 1-based index of the
observations and strings representing dates, such as "2012:01".
And individual observations in a series can be picked out by date if
required, as in
scalar CPI_1980_1 = CPI[1980:1]
Allin Cottrell