Roll Add-in Suggestion
Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 4:19 am
Hello,
Recently I have been using roll add-in which proves itself very useful. But one thing this add-in is lacking might have cost me some time, that is, when want to store coefficients, it saves coefficients in the formatHence as you see, this procedure throws away 10 characters, and if the name of the coefficient in the equation is more than 14 characters long, then eviews will return an error and say that it was not able to find "rollcoefs_"Name of the Coefficient""in which to write the rolling coefficients, because such a series cannot be created.
To overcome this problem, I prefer the UI of roll and advroll to let the user select for the prefix instead of forced "rollcoefs_" prefix, and warn the user about the consequences that if the name of the series is more than 14 characters long, the run will be failed. If the user is not good with debugging or programming in the first place, then this add-in will cause many of these problems in use, because I experienced this problem a lot and did not know what was the actual problem, until I modified the add-in by changing the hard-coded prefix.
Thanks.
Recently I have been using roll add-in which proves itself very useful. But one thing this add-in is lacking might have cost me some time, that is, when want to store coefficients, it saves coefficients in the format
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rollcoefs_"Name of the Coefficient"To overcome this problem, I prefer the UI of roll and advroll to let the user select for the prefix instead of forced "rollcoefs_" prefix, and warn the user about the consequences that if the name of the series is more than 14 characters long, the run will be failed. If the user is not good with debugging or programming in the first place, then this add-in will cause many of these problems in use, because I experienced this problem a lot and did not know what was the actual problem, until I modified the add-in by changing the hard-coded prefix.
Thanks.