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@lag() - is an illegal or reserved named in ""

Postby sudesh » Tue Mar 20, 2018 11:35 am

Hi,

Can you explain us why @lag is not working ? The function was working 1 hour ago.


matrix(2,2) tester
tester.fill 2,3,2,1

@LAG is an illegal or reserved name in "MATRIX LAG_TESTER = @LAG(TESTER,1)".

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Re: @lag() - is an illegal or reserved named in ""

Postby EViews Gareth » Tue Mar 20, 2018 11:39 am

Seems like the code is fine to me.
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Re: @lag() - is an illegal or reserved named in ""

Postby sudesh » Tue Mar 20, 2018 11:50 am

I installed the "2018-03-15" patch.

Now it is working. Wow... eviews is not robust!

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Re: @lag() - is an illegal or reserved named in ""

Postby EViews Gareth » Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:00 pm

@lag for matrices is a new command. Your previous version probably did not have it. Updating to the latest version enabled it.

The fact that newer versions of EViews have more features than previous versions is not a reason to call it "not robust" imo.
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