[Gretl-devel] Regarding the dataset command (Was: Feature requestfor sorting of variables)

[Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza]

On Thursday 04 October 2007 08:56:23 andreas.rosenblad at ltv.se wrote:
> Could you also add another option under the "dataset" command, e.g.
> "dataset deleteobs <parameter>", where e.g. "dataset deleteobs 3, 5, 11-22"
> would delete observations 3, 5 and 11-22 from the data set (i.e. from all
> variables in the data set) and "dataset deleteobs x>0" would delete all
> observations where x>0 from the dataset.
>

I think the 'smpl' command maybe used in the form you need. For example,
to work with all observations except 3,5 and 11-22 you may use

smpl (obs<11 || obs>22) && obs!=3 && obs!=5 --restrict




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