On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 10:02 AM Sven Schreiber
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> the cheatsheet chapter in the gretl user guide has a part about this
> subject. Apart from using the "markers" command, it proposes to use the
> stringify function in a second step.
>
> However, in section 16.2 of the same guide, under the heading of
> "Assigning from an array of strings" there's an example that also starts
> with the markers command, but then simply assigns the result to a
> series, as in "series state = S". I just verified in my own panel
> dataset that that worked nicely. (Full disclosure: My dataset only had
> the country codes in the observation markers, no panel-time information
> in there. That would have complicated things, I guess., But I think the
> same problem would apply to the first solution.)
>
> So the question is: Given that the second way feels more natural, is the
> solution in the cheatsheet outdated, or is it better in some other
> respect that I'm missing?

Well spotted. The solution in the cheatsheet was outdated; it's now
updated in git.

Allin
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