On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Henrique Andrade wrote: > Em 26 de outubro de 2012, Allin Cottrell escreveu: > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Henrique Andrade wrote: >> >>> I found another little strange behavior using PCA >>> Function. Please take a look at the following Hansl >>> code: >>> >>> <hansl> >>> open australia.gdt >>> >>> loop i=1..30 --quiet >>> pca PAU PUS E --save[1] >>> endloop >>> </hansl> >>> >>> After 27 repetitions, the loop starts to save all the >>> new series with the same name "PC1z". >> >> Well, yes, gretl will only go so far in trying to give unique names >> to the components. For more control over the process, use the >> function form, princomp(). > > Dear Allin, is this the expected behavior? In the example > above Gretl is saving different series with the same name.
Oops, no, that is not intended. I thought you meant that the series PC1z was getting over-written, which wouldn't be so bad. Anyway, this should now be fixed in CVS: we now allow for three rounds of the alphabet, not just one: from "PC1" to "PC1zzz" or over 17000 series. Allin
