[Gretl-users] passing a series name to a function

[Sven Schreiber]

Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza schrieb:
> On Thursday 14 June 2007 17:37:32 Sven Schreiber wrote:
>>> ...
>>> For example obtaining names "income_trend" ... when applied to "income"
>>> and names "consume_trend"... when applied to consume.
>> See py4gretl_vecdecomp inside the function package with the same name on
>> the package server for an example.
>>
>> An excerpt:
>>
>> loop foreach i endogenous --quiet
>>     series $i_SWP = sw[,i]
>>     list result = result $i_SWP
>>     series $i_GGperma = GGperma[,i]
>>     list result = result $i_GGperma
>>     series $i_GGtrans = GGtrans[,i]
>>     list result = result $i_GGtrans
>>   endloop
>>
> 
> Ok, but in that example "endogenous" is a list, so this implies that the user 
> should define it first:
> 
> list endogenous = income
> list components = decomp(endogenous)
> 
> and I think that, given that my function does not need more than one input 
> variable, gretl should have a way to obtain the same effect with only one 
> line:
> 
> list components = decomp(income)
> 
> May be the function "varname()" of the "sprintf" command can help in doing 
> something like that?
> 
> 


Sorry, I told you everything I know -- I assume you have tried the
$-trick with a single variable already?

-sven