[Gretl-users] Ops, forgot

[Allin Cottrell]

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:

> > It's always exactly the same even using "setinfo". It works 
> > fine in a script (in the same way "label" does) but not in 
> > gretl console. But if "label" only reports, why then does it 
> > make change the descriptive label ?
> 
> Gretl does not automatically refresh the window. You may click 
> on /Data/refresh window (or alt+r) to see the changes.
> 
> I do not understand how do you use "labels" to change the 
> descriptive label, I cannot do it here.

Ignacio is right, the "labels" command purely and simply prints 
the existing descriptive labels, if any.

However, at some point I made "label" (without an 's' on the end) 
some sort of alias to "setinfo".  This was not a good idea, and 
I'm now removing it in CVS.  It's not documented and it doesn't 
work, so it doesn't have much going for it!

The right way to change a variable's descriptive label (via script 
or console) is as documented:

setinfo varname -d "New descriptive label"

This change may not show up at once in the main window in the GUI; 
if not, you can do /Data/Refresh window, as Ignacio says.

Allin.