Re: [Gretl-users] adding description to a variable

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Leandro Zipitria wrote: > >> Dear Gretl users, >> >> I have a dataset that have 200 variables, all by the name prod_# (that is, >> a list of products from 1 to 200). I also have a csv with the description >> of that product (oil, ham, etc.). >> >> Is there any (simple) way of adding the information of each product to the >> description of the variable by reading the csv file? I know that it could >> be done "by hand" by editing each variable and copy and paste on the >> description of the variable. > > Example (your case may vary somewhat) [...] Ha, I was forgetting, there's the menu item /Data/Variable labels, which also maps onto the "labels" command with the --from-file option. To use that approach, your descriptive labels must be one per line, as in my pnames.txt example. The scripting approach is more flexible: you could use gretl's string-handling functions to deal with other cases such as labels on one line, separated by commas. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users