Illegal name or reserved name

[Envirogate]

Hay,

I am trying to learn programming in eveiws. In doing a CGE modeling excercise, I came across the "illegal name or reserved name" error when I wanted to assign values. Here is the command:
FOR %VR BOT EXR PD PE PM PQ PWE PWM PX QQ QM RPD RPX XD XE XS YH omega
sigma
SERIES %VR
NEXT
BOT=0
PD=1
PWE=1
PWM=1
XD=MSAM(1,2)

The error message says BOT is illegal name or reserved. I am using Eviews 7.

Thanks for your help

[Regopark98]

Change the line "SERIES %VR" to "SERIES {%VR}" will do.

[Envirogate]

Thanks alot working very well now

[Envirogate]

A similar problem however in obtaining row sums in a matrix. The row total suppossed to be 100 while the command I am using is giving me a crazy number. Any help would be appreciated. Here is the command.

!NRWS=@ROWS(MSAM)
FOR !R=1 TO (!NRWS-1)
ROWVECTOR RV{!R}=@ROWEXTRACT(MSAM, !R)
VTOT(!R)=@SUM(RV{!R})
DELETE RV{!R}
NEXT

[EViews Gareth]

Seems to work for me:

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create u 10 matrix(10,3) msam rnd(msam) vector(10) vtot !NRWS=@ROWS(MSAM) FOR !R=1 TO (!NRWS-1) ROWVECTOR RV{!R}=@ROWEXTRACT(MSAM, !R) VTOT(!R)=@SUM(RV{!R}) DELETE RV{!R} NEXT

[Envirogate]

Thanks it also work for me but the problem is the row sum is not correct. What I get is 3900 while the sum is 100.

[EViews Gareth]

Works for me.

[Envirogate]

Thanks I opened a new program file and a copy paste made it possible. But for curisity when I run the program multiple times the row sum multiplies itself.

Thanks

[EViews Glenn]

Ignoring from the pedagogical value of the exercise, wouldn't the following be easier?

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vector vtot = @csum(@transpose(msam))

Not sure about the increasing value of VTOT on repeats. Doesn't seem to do it for me.

[paiol]

Change the line "SERIES %VR" to "SERIES {%VR}" will do.

I am using version 8, and Iam using the same model code. but its not workin for me.. any help on this?

thanks

[EViews Gareth]

You need to change what you're doing wrong to be something that is right.