Hi all, What is the preferred use of these in hansl? I've started using scalar for all scalar computations (but in any old code I used genr); sometimes I use series instead of genr to generate new variables. I do realize that series will generate a series from a scalar. For instance, which is the preferred usage: open engel set seed 3213789 loop 100 --progressive --quiet series u = normal(0,88) series y1= 80+10*income+u ols y1 const income endloop or open engel set seed 3213789 loop 100 --progressive --quiet genr u = normal(0,88) genr y1= 80+10*income+u ols y1 const income endloop also suppose I want to print or store a scalar, which of these is preferred way to generate the scalar? scalar b = $coeff(income) genr b = $coeff(income) I'm trying to finish the updated version of my gretl book and my code needs some tidying up. Looking at it now, it is pretty much a mess. It seems I've mixed the usage of these up throughout and I'd like to know the preferred way before I hack my way back through a thousand lines of code ..... Thanks, Lee -- Lee Adkins Professor of Economics lee.adkins(a)okstate.edu learneconometrics.com _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Lee Adkins wrote:

> What is the preferred use of these in hansl? I've started using scalar for

> all scalar computations (but in any old code I used genr); sometimes I use

> series instead of genr to generate new variables. I do realize that series

> will generate a series from a scalar.

These days, the recommendation is to use the type-name ("scalar",

"series" or whatever) when creating a new variable. There has been

some talk of getting rid of "genr" as a command word, and while

that's not slated just yet it's probably a good idea to avoid it.

Allin Cottrell

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