Re: [Gretl-users] WG: append horizontal and vertical

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Schaff, Frederik wrote: Glad to help. In fact I was wrong, the problem you found with Jack's script was not to do with the identifiers, and after a further tweak in git (and today's snapshots) it should work fine. Also after recent tweaks your original idea of using "append" will work -- on condition that you replace the label "ABMAT_ConfigID" with "obs" (thus getting gretl to think of the values as observation numbers). On *nix that could be done via for f in *.tsv ; do sed -i s/ABMAT_ConfigID/obs/ $f done Then the following (which borrows from Jack) will do the job: <hansl> set verbose off string path_base = "" # or whatever string path_ts = path_base ~ "parameters_" string ts_name = ".tsv" scalar first = 1 scalar last = 2 #1600 fname = sprintf("%s%d%s",path_ts,first,ts_name) open @fname --preserve loop i=first+1..last -q fname = sprintf("%s%d%s",path_ts,i,ts_name) append @fname --quiet endloop strings intervals = defarray("0-499","500-999","1000-1499",\ "1500-1999","1500-1504","1500-1519","1500-1549",\ "1500-1599","1500-1749") scalar n = nelem(intervals) loop j=first..last --quiet smpl j j loop i=1..n --quiet fname = sprintf("%sstat_%s_%d%s",path_base,intervals[i],j,ts_name) append @fname --update-overlap endloop endloop smpl full varlist print se_Seed sh_Seed MA_Utility_MAE_uq_I9 -o </hansl> On the relative merits of the different approaches: the matrix method is fastest, but the join method is most "secure" in that it would expose any inconsistencies in the input files. (All that the matrix method checks is that the successive data files are of the right overall dimensions to pack into place.) Allin