On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> If series results are wanted, here's a variant on Ignacio's
> suggestion. It's bulkier than Jack's suggestion, but it doesn't
> depend on knowing the starting year and quarter in advance:
>
>
> open data9-7
> series quarter year
> scalar tyear tquart
On 17/09/12 11:29, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
> 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 str
On 16/09/12 22:40, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> ...
> Does this help?
>
>
> open bjg.gdt
> series year = 1949 + floor((t-1)/12)
> series month = 1 + ((t-1)%12)
>
>
> --
> Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
> Dipartimento di Economia
A different pos
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
> 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 s
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Annaert Jan wrote:
> Very compact, as always. But it wouldn't work for a dataset with weekly
> or daily frequency, would it?
For daily data, I can't see why not. For weekly data, the problem is that
365 is not a multiple of 7.
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Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] extracting month number
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Data Analytics Corp. wrote:
Hi,
I have a monthly time series of the Dow J
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Data Analytics Corp. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a monthly time series of the Dow Jones Industrial Index beginning
> 1928:10. I'd like to create a new variable that is just the month
> number: 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, How can I do this? I thought there
> would be a month funct
Hi,
I have a monthly time series of the Dow Jones Industrial Index beginning
1928:10. I'd like to create a new variable that is just the month
number: 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, How can I do this? I thought there
would be a month function in Gretl, but I don't see one. This question,
of cou
