Dear Gretl users, I have a dataset that have 200 variables, all by the name prod_# (that is, a list of products from 1 to 200). I also have a csv with the description of that product (oil, ham, etc.). Is there any (simple) way of adding the information of each product to the description of the variable by reading the csv file? I know that it could be done "by hand" by editing each variable and copy and paste on the description of the variable.

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Leandro Zipitria wrote: > >> Dear Gretl users, >> >> I have a dataset that have 200 variables, all by the name prod_# (that is, >> a list of products from 1 to 200). I also have a csv with the description >> of that product (oil, ham, etc.). >> >> Is there any (simple) way of adding the information of each product to the >> description of the variable by reading the csv file? I know that it could >> be done "by hand" by editing each variable and copy and paste on the >> description of the variable. > > Example (your case may vary somewhat) [...] Ha, I was forgetting, there's the menu item /Data/Variable labels, which also maps onto the "labels" command with the --from-file option. To use that approach, your descriptive labels must be one per line, as in my pnames.txt example. The scripting approach is more flexible: you could use gretl's string-handling functions to deal with other cases such as labels on one line, separated by commas. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users