Use of import/copy and keeping descriptions
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 4:44 am
Hello,
I have an external Excel-file, where names of the series are equivalent to some original series within my workfile. The original series contains values in the range between the years 1980-2200, while the new data contains forecasts for the period 2023-2050. I am updating the values in the original series with the values in the new file.
First question: Is there a way to do what I have done below, only using the import-command directly, within the page the original series are located? Meaning without creating a temporary page.
Second question: The values in my original series are correctly updated below. However, the copying also overwrites the original descriptions, which is unintentional. How do I keep my original descriptions?
I have an external Excel-file, where names of the series are equivalent to some original series within my workfile. The original series contains values in the range between the years 1980-2200, while the new data contains forecasts for the period 2023-2050. I am updating the values in the original series with the values in the new file.
First question: Is there a way to do what I have done below, only using the import-command directly, within the page the original series are located? Meaning without creating a temporary page.
Second question: The values in my original series are correctly updated below. However, the copying also overwrites the original descriptions, which is unintentional. How do I keep my original descriptions?
Code: Select all
pagecreate(page="midl") q
'External data
%path = "C:\...kt2023q3-2050q4.xlsx"
import %path range=kt2023q3-2050q4!$A$2:$DG$11 byrow colhead=1 namepos=all na="#N/A" names=(,,,,,,,,,) @freq Q @id @date(series01) @smpl @all
delete series*
'Merge with original variables
ps kvarts
copy(c=none, merge) midl\* * @src @date @dest @date