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Hi,

I want to create a series that sums other series in a workfile and I am unsure about the syntax:

The code underneath does not work but I believe illustrates what I am trying to do:

For %latam arg bra chl col ecu per ury ven
For %abovline curr good serv fact tran
series lat8_{%abovline}_ltm= lat8_{%abovline}_ltm+{%latam}_{%abovline}_ltm
next
next

So that I obtain:
lat8_curr_ltm=arg_curr_ltm+bra_curr_ltm+chl_curr_ltm+...

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Regards,

Javier

A quick look indicates that your code should work, although, of course, you'd have to set the output series equal to zero before the loop starts.

That was it! Thanks.

Javier

Slightly off-topic note for instructional purposes. A slightly different approach uses the @rsum This may be useful if you wish to do something slightly more complicated like computing the means or variances across the series.

Thanks a lot. That code is really useful.

Regards,

Javier