[Gretl-devel] array indexing

[Riccardo Jack Lucchetti]

On Tue, August 22, 2006 15:48, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Vaidotas Zemlys wrote:
>
>> R uses 1-base indexing. If x is vector, x[1] is the first element, if m
>> is array, or matrix, or data frame, m[1,] is the first row, m[,1] is the
>> first column.
>
> Thanks.  Well then, we're not out of line with all other
> programs.  (I suppose ox is really a programming language rather
> than an "econometrics package" as such, and in programming
> languages 0-base indexing is certainly the norm.)
>

And even that, not always: IIRC, FORTRAN is 1-based too, and so should be
gauss and matlab. I think base 1 is ok, it's one less thing for people without
a C background to worry about if they want to port their procedures into gretl
scripts.

Riccardo "Jack" Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Facoltà di Economia "G. Fuà"
Ancona