Dates and Retrieving Elements
Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 9:51 pm
Hi,
Complete rookie eViews user. I've managed to link a quarterly timeseries to an excel file but having problems referring to elements within the time series other than @last or @first?
I'm running the following code on the data attached.
The data is indexed as follows
WAGES_TR
.
.
2014Q2 - 118.7
2014Q3 - 119.4
2014Q4 - 120.1
My question is instead of using 2015Q1, can I use something as follows:
Complete rookie eViews user. I've managed to link a quarterly timeseries to an excel file but having problems referring to elements within the time series other than @last or @first?
I'm running the following code on the data attached.
The data is indexed as follows
WAGES_TR
.
.
2014Q2 - 118.7
2014Q3 - 119.4
2014Q4 - 120.1
Code: Select all
wages_tr.smooth(n) wages_trsm
show wages_sa.@last
show (@elem(wages_trsm,"2015Q1")/@elem(wages_sa,"2014Q4")-1)*100Code: Select all
@elem(wages_trsm,@obs(date)-1)