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

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > I quite like the "keep" idea (handy if you have a dataset
> > containing a lot of "junk"), and I also like the idea of moving
> > "delete" (for variables) into place under the "dataset" command.
> > 
> > The old "delete" command could be kept as an alias, at least for a
> > while.
> > 
> > As for deleteobs and keepobs, these seem to me somewhat
> > redundant given the smpl command and the ability to save the
> > dataset.
> 
> Ok. Deal?

In principle ;-)  But adding list-parsing to the dataset command 
is not trivial and might break things.  And "delete" can also be 
used for matrices.  So I think I'll not attempt this right now; 
probably after the next release.

Allin.