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A nice feature of Eviews 6 was the ability to click on a series in the workfile view and drag to select multiple adjacent series (for opening a group, equation, etc.). However, this feature does not seem to work on Eviews 7. Was this feature deliberately disabled? Or will it be included in a future ...

Thanks for the warning Chris. We'll make sure our dbcopy command specifically includes the option "desttype=eviews6" so that next time we update our software, we won't be caught by the bug correction. With or without the bug, the new option does help us in our transition from Eviews 6 to 7.

P.S. I think the issue is that the left-hand-side and right-hand-side variables are the same. Say you have a blank workfile. The following command will not generate an error: GENR POPTEST = POPTEST/1000 (even though POPTEST did not exist prior to this command). However, the following command will ge...

We recently uncovered an error in our Eviews code that might point to a possible bug in both Eviews 6 and 7. Our program reads in and manipulates population data, with series names such as POPTX (population in Texas). After reading in the data, one of the lines in our code scales the variable using ...

I see that your Mar 23 2010 patch for Eviews 7 now includes the (desttype=Eviews6) option for the dbcopy command. After experimenting with the new option a bit, I see that the default property is to copy the database in the same format it currently is in (i.e. Version 2.0 -> Version 2.0 or Version 4...

We are in the process of transitioning to Eviews 7 and have run across a backward compatibility issue with Eviews databases. In our Eviews code, we first create a database on our local hard drive (dbcreate c:\...) and then copy this database up to our server (dbcopy) to be used by some people workin...

This is a question regarding Eviews 6. Is there a command for sorting the group members in a group (i.e. sorting by series name)? I am combining two groups into a single group and wish to export the data to an Excel file but would like the variables listed in alphabetical order. For example: group g...

When writing to an existing Oracle table via an ODBC DSN, it appears that Eviews 6 drops the table and then recreates it. Unfortunately, this resets any structure characteristics of the existing Oracle table (such as constraints, field characteristics, grants, etc.). It would be nice if the Eviews O...

In the import dialog box or on the READ command, enter a "$" after the name of your alpha series.

When entering the series names in the import dialog box, put the "$" tag (i.e., dollar sign) after the name of any series you'd like to be read as alpha data (e.g., "COUNTRY $ INCOME CONSUMP").

Is there a quick way to append additional unstructured data to an existing Eviews database? The "merge" option only works if I fetch all the existing data first. With normal time-series data, you can directly store/merge from a workfile to an existing database, and only the data for the ne...

That was simple enough ... thanks.

I still think Eviews should be able to open the ~.f1 file type as a valid workfile.

How do I access/open a backup workfile (i.e. the previous version of a workfile that is created upon saving, with file extension ".~f1")?

Eviews doesn't seem to know what to do with these files ... when I try to open it, Eviews gives me a Binary Read dialog box.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks Gareth, I see in the documentation now that "arg2 is a numeric or alpha series expression identifying the subgroups." I guess I overlooked that statement and assumed that you needed to use group objects for by-group statistics. It would be nice in future versions of Eviews to have t...

Hello, I have some questions about using the By-Group statistics functions, specifically @meansby(arg1,arg2[,s]). I understand the first argument is the series you want to average. But what is arg2? From the documentation, I assume you have to create a group for arg2, where the series in the group d...