[Gretl-devel] genr command line length bug

[Allin Cottrell]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Ok Jack, thanks for your effort, I appreciate it.
> 
> Turns out that the original formula partially uses the wrong 
> series (the last two), and that during the renaming stage in 
> order to reduce the line length that error was implicitly 
> corrected without anyone noticing until now.
> 
> So it's not a gretl bug at all!
> 
> Sorry for the noise, we really should have cross-checked with a 
> different software first. But hey, we're all only using gretl 
> ;-)

Thanks, Sven.  I had just come to that conclusion myself: somebody 
had entered the level rather than the log-difference into the 
formula for two of variables, which of course gave you a spurious 
upward trend.

BTW, it looks as if someone has done some rather laborious 
re-basing of the price series by hand.  Here's the preferred way:

open d_ppi100rpiv.gdt
loop foreach i Fruits___melons..Other_miscellan
   sprintf sername "%.12sreb", "$i"
   series @sername = $i/$i[2000:01]
endloop

Allin.