[Gretl-users] Re: read-only variable

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Stefano wrote: > hello everybody, > I just noticed that in a gdt dataset the names of the variables imported > from a spreadsheet cannot be changed (error of command rename: "the > variable x is read-only"). Far enough, not much of an issue, but I am > curious: what is the rationale? I suspect that some transformation must have taken place. For example, try this: <hansl> nulldata 10 x = uniform() logs x rename x y </hansl> you get an error, because internally x is flagged as the "parent" of l_x. At present, there is way to force renaming in cases such as this. Perhaps we could add a --force option to the raname command. Allin?