[Gretl-users] Can gretl allow to save lists for future use (Sven Schreiber)

[YiMin Chen]

Hi Sven,

Thank you for your reply.

What I meant is that, e.g., if I create a list of the code of 50 states

list statelist = AR MA PA ...

I can save this statelist somewhere. Next time I do not need to create this
list again. I just retrieve it from the file. So, when I need to do the data
of the population of the 50 state, I can just create a new list from it by
typing

list statepop = statelist suffix pop

then I can get the state population variable list

ARpop MApop PApop ...

In the reverse case, if I get the list statepop from the variable names in
from the population by state dataset, and I want to get the state code list
from it, I can type

List statelist = statepop strip pop

Then I can get the state code list

AR MA PA ...

Anyway, I can save the lists I created for future manipulation and use,
especially when they are very long lists. Can gretl allow doing that?

Regards

YiMin Chen

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:51:35 +0200
From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch at gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Can gretl allow to save lists for future
	use
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Hi,

not sure what you mean: it _is_ possible to save the list members to
separate files and re-open them later on. But I admit that you would
have to write a script for that I guess.

Or do you mean you want to save the definition of a list as a kind of
object in a gretl session file, instead of the values of the series in
the list? I'm not sure if that's implemented.

cheers,
sven

YiMin Chen schrieb:
> Dear Developers,
> 
> I am new to this great econometric software. Its list function is very
> useful, obviously an edge over the EViews? Group function. It will be
> even more useful if gretl provides more ways to create and manipulate
> lists, and most importantly, can save the lists in a file and can be
> retrieved for future use. I do not know how much work it needs to add
> such capacity to gretl. Is there anyone interested in adding such
> capacity to gretl?
> 
> Beast regards,
> 
> YiMin Chen  
>