Re: [Gretl-users] indexes in loops
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Ignacio Díaz-Emparanza wrote:
Looking at Jack's script gmmstart.inp, published recently in
this list (I attach the file) may be the solution is to write
a previous line "j = i+1" and use the index j (but I have no
very clear whether j is now an scalar or an integer as "i")
> loop i=2..11 --quiet
> j = i - 1
> matrix tmp[,$i] = (X[,j] - X[,11]) .* elmrs
> end loop
I suspect that "j = i -1" is an alias of "scalar j = i - 1",
Do we have a command as "integer j = i - 1"?
At present, no. But I think this should be introduced soon: the
ability to define a variable as having integer type. (Right now
all scalars are floating-point numbers.)
Allin.