[Gretl-users] Re: Retrieve day of easterday() as proper integer

Am 08.05.2020 um 08:38 schrieb Artur Tarassow: > Hi all, > > I've stumbled over this weird thing trying to retrieve the day of Easter > Sunday applying the easterday() function as shown in the help text. > > However, it seems that scalar "d" is not a proper integer as trying to > restrict the sample to a single day fails with the error message "No > observations would be left!". Replacing "d" in the "smpl" command by 5 > scalar e = easterday(2015) > scalar m = floor(e) > scalar d = 100*(e-m) > print e m d Well, I think it's understandable that gretl doesn't recognize d as an integer here, since it's a multiple of a decimal number. OK we know that mathematically no fractional part remains, but how is gretl supposed to know that? I would expect it works after round().