Ang. Re: [Gretl-devel] Feature request for the xtab cross tabulation function

[Allin Cottrell]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

> IMO, it would be nice to be able to save the matrix from a 
> script too.

Yes, that had occurred to me.

> Unfortunately, the syntax for this is not exactly obvious. One 
> possibility could be appending a --save option to the xtab 
> command, but then, what should the name of the saved matrix be?
> 
> Alternatively, one may create an mxtab function, to be used as
> 
> matrix foo = mxtab(x,y)

I think that the second option is better, and shouldn't be too 
difficult.

Allin.