[Gretl-users] Assorted little bugs

2007-04-26 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, during a bug-hunting session which will lead to an update of py4gretl shortly I came across the following quirks and issues in gretl (with Win snapshot Apr 17): 1) x = (obs>1991:1) isn't working ("expected ')' but found ':'" or something like that -- this is with quarterly data). 2) In a "ne

[Gretl-users] following Sven's hunting

2007-04-26 Thread ab . news
following Sven's hunting (on Windows snapshot April 22): 1. the command "genr dummy = (t=10)" doesn't produce a dummy variable as indicated in the User's guide (july 2006 version) 2. while executing the following script : nulldata 4100 setobs 1 1 --time-series genr X = normal()+2

Re: [Gretl-users] following Sven's hunting

2007-04-26 Thread Sven Schreiber
ab.news schrieb: > > Suggestion > For those of us who have to deal with a bi(multi)lingual > teaching/terms would it be possible to build in a language > switch menu to avoid shuttling Dos-Gretl sessions? > I'm not a gretl developer, but that sounds difficult to implement. (Although I agree it w

Re: [Gretl-users] Assorted little bugs

2007-04-26 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote: > 1) x = (obs>1991:1) isn't working ("expected ')' but found ':'" or > something like that -- this is with quarterly data). (obs>"1991:1") will work. I'll see if I can avoid the need for the quotes. > 2) In a "new variable" dialog, x=0 produces scalar

Re: [Gretl-users] Assorted little bugs

2007-04-26 Thread Sven Schreiber
Allin Cottrell schrieb: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> 1) x = (obs>1991:1) isn't working ("expected ')' but found ':'" or >> something like that -- this is with quarterly data). > > (obs>"1991:1") will work. I'll see if I can avoid the need for > the quotes. Maybe it's enoug