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 solution in the cheatsheet outdated, or is it better in some other 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 The solution in the cheatsheet was outdated; it's now updated in git.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 _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/
