Re: [Gretl-users] any documentation on error message

I've been using gretl for a recent project and I have a couple of quesions/observations about syntax. In Allin's code snippet below, why would you use means[i] instead of means[$i] in the loop. I've used loop i=start..end $i endloop which seems to work with one letter loop variables, i, j, k, etc., but not loop iloop=start..end $iloop endloop when "iloop" is not recognized. With that I had to construct a scalar iloop=start-1 loop while iloop < end iloop=iloop+1 iloop endloop Also, my current script is a couple of hundred lines long with a couple of big loops. If I run the script and there's an error, sometimes I cannot "recover" the script because it's stopped in the middle and left something "hanging" so that if I correct the error and re-run, the script doesn't actually run, the output is simply a list of the script. I just kill the session and re-start, which works. Is there a different method for killing the script. A couple of times I highlighted "endloop" and ran just that, which caused gretl to crash. I also noticed that if X is a matrix X[i,j]^(exponent) does not work, when temp=X[i,j] temp^(exponent) is necessary. Finally, my data set consists of 15146 cross-sectional units with varying observations over time. Monthly data within the interval 1962:01 through 2007:12. Any way to get gretl to recognize a pattern like this as some sort of panel? Thanks. Rob Allin Cottrell wrote: