Ang. Re: [Gretl-devel] Regarding the dataset command (Was: Featurerequestfor sorting of variables)

[Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza]

On Thursday 04 October 2007 10:34:10 andreas.rosenblad at ltv.se wrote:
> ignacio.diaz-emparanza at ehu.es @ INTERNET skrev 2007-10-04 10:09:23 :
> > 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
>
> But I want to delete the observations, not just restrict the analysis to
> some observations.
>

Well, I don't know how to do that directly in the gretl main window, but you 
can do what you want saving the data in a file:

smpl (obs<11 || obs>22) && obs!=3 && obs!=5 --restrict
store blabla.gdt
open blabla.gdt




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