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Matching a date with a series observation
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:20 am
by ashtongate
Anyone know how to match a series observation to a date? I know about @dtoo and @otod, but I am thinking more of identifying the date for which a series reached it maximum value; i.e. I do not know the observation number, just the criteris (that it is the max),
Cheers!
Re: Matching a date with a series observation
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:59 am
by EViews Gareth
where x is the name of your series.
Re: Matching a date with a series observation
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:12 am
by ashtongate
Great, thanks!
Re: Matching a date with a series observation
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:20 am
by atoch
Bonjour,
I'm trying to use the @otod() function.
Documentation says it returns a string but when I try to store the output of @otod() into an object of type alpha, I receive an error massage saying that @OTOD is not a Genr or series expression function.
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alpha mytext
mytext = @otod(@imax(FRA_CG_ADBQ))
Where FRA_CG_ADBQ is a quarterly time series with a sample running from 1950q1 to 2009q2.
I've tried simplier versions of the above code like :
I don't receive the error message but I can't access the content of the temporary variable %1 so it doesn't help.
Thanks
Arnaud Atoch
Re: Matching a date with a series observation
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:00 am
by EViews Gareth
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alpha mytext
%s = @otod(5)
mytext = %s
Re: Matching a date with a series observation
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:26 pm
by atoch
Thanks.
When running your above code the following error is produced :
%s is not defined
Both with Eviews6 and Eviews7 beta.
Arnaud Atoch
Re: Matching a date with a series observation
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:38 am
by EViews Gareth
Sounds like you're running the code from the command line, rather than from within an EViews program. You'll have to run it in an EViews program.
If you want to use it from the command line, you could do:
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alpha mytext
string s = @otod(5)
mytext = s