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Ah, thanks. I missed wfuse when checking for options and having read that I think it will do the trick in this case.

It's not absolutely essential but for user friendliness of a self contained program I've written for my team at work. It goes roughly like this: Check if a workfile exists if it does not then: 1) Create one and load in some data from a csv file, then run an estimation subroutine. else 2) just run th...

Hi - apologies for what is quite a basic question - what is the simplest way to check if a given workfile is open? I can use @fileexist to see if a workfile is saved to a given location, but I couldn't see an equivalent option to check if it is open in the current instance of EViews (running 8.1 by ...

A quick question - when using the Read command for an ASCII file, I can use skipcol=n option to ignore the first n columns in the file. Is there anyway to get EViews to ignore the nth column out of N (e.g. the 5th column out of 10)? I suspect not, but wanted to check as the alternatives will be less...

If you have the XML file on your network, is should work just fine. There is no requirement to host the XML on a website. Thanks for the reply. Presumably I have made some other kind of error, although I'm not sure where. The message I get is: [Addin_Name]: Could not retrieve update list due to err...

I've written my own addin and installer for EViews 8 which works fine. I notice however there is an option to enable automatic updates, with an option to specify a URL for an XML file. However, ideally, I'd like the addin to be updated from a directory on our network, rather than web host it. I've t...

Hi - thanks for the work around. Like I say it is a really tiny bug, hardly a huge problem but thought I would post it nonetheless. The value for me in it is that, if fixed, it is easy to get an identical output of data, whether you are using a pooled model with series that have cross sectional iden...

Thanks for this suggestion (I'm revisiting coding in EViews after not having done much since EViews 6 so not terribly familiar with the version changes). However, the dateid series still does not export correctly. For a balanced pannel with integer dates, the dateid series correctly goes through 1, ...

Hi, this is a really tiny bug, but thought I would post it. When using a balanced pannel workfile with integer dates (EViews 8, 32 bit), I can write to a csv using a command like this: write(t=txt,na="",d=c,dates) “C:\My_CSV.csv” Var1 Var2 Var3 However, this doesn't give me a CSV with 4 &q...

Apologies, I can't be much help here for a number of reasons. Firstly the file is too big to email (40mb), and in any case a lot of the data contained is classed as confidential and legally I can't let it out of the office. If I delete the sensitive stuff the problem goes away, but that doesn't make...

I have noticed EViews 8 (32 bit version) has a tendency to crash when attempting to insert new rows to tables. If I right click on a table row number, click insert cells, and select one row often I get a Windows 7 message that EViews has stopped working. The same happens if I click on a sell and the...

Actually I may have found a solution, inserting this line before extraction seems to have done the trick: mytable.setformat(2,2) f.16 The @val precision seems to be restricted by the table format, but not the actual number entered (i.e. a 16 place decimal number was pasted in before using the setfor...

Hi - this is my first post here so apologies if it is in the wrong section or naive etc. I've used the search function already and can't find a similar post. I want to assign a value from a cell in a a table to a control variable as part of a program in EViews 8, e.g. !myvariable = @val(mytable(2,2)...