Re: [Gretl-users] cosmetics for 1.6.0
Riccardo Jack Lucchetti schrieb:
On Wed, September 6, 2006 21:05, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Allin Cottrell schrieb:
>
>>> - I couldn't see how to set a variable to "discrete" in the
denmark data
>>> set. Not that it would make any sense there, but in case you disabled
>>> discreteness for all time series data, isn't that a little too radical?
>> It's disabled for variables any of whose values have a fractional part.
>>
> Is that really necessary? For example, I was just told that in a popular
> German panel dataset (GSOEP) the years-of-schooling variable can also
> take on half-year (.5) values. But nothing in between, so it's still
> discrete.
>
You can always multiply it by 2. Not very clean, but...
Yeah right ;-)
Seriously though, it's an explicit user action, so why restrict it at all?
Also, IIRC you guys agreed to mark discrete variable in the main list
(Icon, or 'd', or whatever). Is that still on?
-sven