On 16/09/12 22:40, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > ... > Does this help? > > <hansl> > open bjg.gdt > series year = 1949 + floor((t-1)/12) > series month = 1 + ((t-1)%12) > </hansl> > > -------------------------------------------------- > Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti > Dipartimento di Economia
A different possibility is to play with strings. We have the command 'obslabel' for this. For example, if the observations are quarterly, this code writes the year of the 't' observation into the string 'iyear' and the quarter into the string 'iquarter': (where t=1, 2, 3, ... is the 1-based index of the observation: ) <hansl> string s = obslabel(t) sscanf s, "%d:%d", tyear, tquarter </hansl> If you need it, you may then put the strings in scalars in this way: scalar ty=@tyear scalar tq=@tquarter -- Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA APLICADA III (ECONOMETRÍA Y ESTADÍSTICA) UPV/EHU Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre, 83 | 48015 BILBAO T.: +34 946013732 | F.: +34 946013754 www.ehu.es/ignacio.diaz-emparanza/ www.ea3.ehu.es
