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error message when unstacking

Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 3:33 pm
by drewesparon
Im trying to unstack my data. I followed the example on the online help step by step from the following link http://www.eviews.com/help/helpintro.ht ... l#ww124194

proc/reshape current page => unstack in new page => series name=country => one or more series name = dateid and i got an error messgae saying
"Series specified for unstacking does not have valid values for
forming series names"
Can anyone please explain what this mean?

Re: error message when unstacking

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 1:04 am
by EViews Gareth
Series names in EViews have to be fewer than 24 characters, have no spaces, or have other illegal characters. Your current cross-section identifiers are either too long, or have spaces etc...

Re: error message when unstacking

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 2:35 am
by drewesparon
that doesnt seem to be the problem.. there is not space or illegal characters

Re: error message when unstacking

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 2:40 am
by drewesparon
OK so i have attached the data. can someone help me figure out why i cant unstack

proc/reshape current page => unstack in new page => series name = country => one or more series name = dateid and i got an error messgae saying
"Series specified for unstacking does not have valid values for
forming series names"

Re: error message when unstacking

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 2:52 am
by EViews Gareth
There are no spaces in your cross-section identifier series?

Re: error message when unstacking

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 2:57 am
by drewesparon
i have attached the data. can you please take a look at it. I am fairly new to eviews. However i dont think there is any space

Re: error message when unstacking

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 3:50 am
by EViews Gareth
There clearly are.

Re: error message when unstacking

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 4:05 am
by drewesparon
Thank you very much i will remove the spaces.