[Gretl-users] Re: --contiguous option fails
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Artur Tarassow wrote:
either I overlook something or currently the behavior of the
"--contiguous" option of the "smpl" command has changed, as this is
not working using latest git on Ubuntu 19.04:
<hansl>
open denmark.gdt -q
LRM[2] = NA # insert NA value
list L = LRM LRY
smpl L --contiguous # error
smpl --contiguous L # error
</hansl>
The error condition is consistent with the documentation for this
command:
"The effect is to trim any observations at the start and end of the
current sample range that contain missing values (either for the
variables in varlist, or for all data series if no varlist is given).
Then a check is performed to see if there are any missing values in
the remaining range; if so, an error is flagged."
Your NA at observation 2 is not skipped: it's not at the start of the
current sample range. Compare:
smpl 2 ;
smpl L --contiguous # advances the sample start to obs 3
Allin