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Hello I would like to create new alpha variables with the for loop. However, this is prevented by the quotation marks. For example: This code works fine: for %k %j 1 20 2 30 3 40 series country{%k}={%j} next But I would like to have the names of the countries as string variables alpha country1="...

Thank you very much! I will try your suggestions.

Thank you once again. In the meantime I have detected another "bug". I tried to use the @groupid function for an alpha series. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Do you know how to get the number of distinct values for an alpha series?

Thank you very much. But note, this sentence is from the user's guide I (Eviews 6 (PDF: page 753, Printed Version: page 749) at the end of the section "by-group statistics": "There are two related functions of note, @groupid(arg[, smpl]) returns an integer indexing the group ID for ea...

I tried to use the „@ngroups” function in the following way. series test_a= @groupid(lfd_nr) scalar test_b= @ngroups(test_a) Whereas the series test_a is generated, the scalar test_b is not. I got the following error code: @NGROUPS is an illegal or reserved name in "SCALAR TEST_B=@NGROUPS(TEST_...